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It is very important like future English teachers to know how to teach this foreign language to ours future students. So here we have another method which shows us one more way to teach. Sometimes it is not easy to make that the students learn a foreign language easily, probably because we do not have or we do not know a good method to teach a foreign language to them and it became a problem to us and to the students. In the history how to teach a foreign language have been changing and performance the method. The Direct Method is a proof that. It is better than Grammar Translation Method.
Objectives
To learn about the Direct Method, learn the techniques understand them to use in the future like teachers. Know everything about this method, history and how it was putting ongoing. Put into practice all the techniques learned in the Direct Method.
Reading Aloud Question and Answer Exercise Student Self-Correction Conversation Practice
4 The Direct Method rejects use of the printed word - but this objection is illogical since second language learner has already mastered his reading skills. 5 Later disciples of Direct Method took it to extremes and refused to speak a single word of English in lessons. To avoid translating new words, they searched for an association between new words and the idea it stood for: 6 Successful teacher of the Direct Method needed competence in his language / stamina/ energy/ imagination/ ability and time to create own materials and courses - beyond capacity of all but gifted few.
"The method by its very nature presupposes a teacher of immense vitality, of robust health, one endowed with real fluency in the modern language he teaches. He must be resourceful in the way of gesture and tricks of facial expression, able to sketch rapidly on the board and in the language teaching day, he must be proof against linguistic fatigue". 7 Also Direct Methodists failed to grade and structure their materials adequately - no selection, grading or controlled presentation of vocabulary and structures.
Conclusion
This work has been very important for us because we learned other method to teach a foreign language. We know the history, how it was performance and now we know the techniques of this method. We also learned how to use this method to teach a foreign language.