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LICENCIATURA EN EDUCACIÓN BÁSICA CON ÉNFASIS EN HUMANIDADES E IDIOMAS

ENGLISH DIDACTICS
LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODS

NAME: Sebastián Rodríguez Moncada

DIRECT METHOD
Background:
The direct method was established in Germany and France in early 20 th
century as an answer. the Grammar Translation Methodology.

This method makes use of the target language as a model to learn the
foreign language, that means, carrying out the foreign language teaching
in the same way people learnt their mother tongue. That’s why it is called
“natural method”.

GOAL TEACHER ROLE LEARNER ROLE TECHNIQUES

The main goal is to achieve
a well language learning
based on a “natural”
approach methodology.
This model aims to
speech/speaking emphasis,
that means, a learning
based on real and
functional communicative
situations.
This teaching method also
aims to an inductive way to
learn the foreign language
The teacher role is The learner role is Due to a functional
mainly active, though kind of passive, communicative
it’s a cooperative they’re guided to emphasis, this method
student-learning respond to a self- makes use of “realia”
process, it’s the teacher correction process as a one of the
that guides the class based on the principal techniques of
through the approaches the language approaching.
encouragement and teacher does of the This strategy consists
direct correction of the language use. of relating the things
student in the that are around the
language learning However, his/her role educative space in
is also active order to translate them
Since the emphasis is according to the and thus, have a
speaking, the teacher participation and the strong link between
also stimulates a self- output they make in the thing and the
grammar. In that way, correction of the class. foreign word to learn.
students first got exposed students’ output
the dialogues and then they product. Also, there are other
infer the structural rules techniques such as
conform the sentences reading aloud,
question answer
exercises,
conversation practice,
fill-in-the-blank
exercises,
dictation
and paragraph
writing.