Grammar Translation Method

Advantage

Let us know the significant, advantages of GTM:

 The teachers need a few specialized skills on particular topics.

 Students get the opportunity to achieve maximum accuracy on targeted language.
 The learners have to read the classic literature which develops their mental and
intellectual ability.
 Literature also helps to enrich multiple potentials of the learners.
 The learners have to memorize a lot of vocabularies which help them to make different
kinds of sentences.
 GTM also helps students to improve the reading and writing proficiency of the targeted
language.
 Students are able to read the literature which is written in the targeted language.
 They are able to translate from and into the targeted language.
 By telling the meaning of the word or sentence in mother tongue, the teacher can at once
make the students understand.
 The students are able to learn many items of English by comparison with mother tongue.
 The comprehension of the students can be tested very easily.

Disadvantages

Let us know the considerable disadvantages of GTM:

 The students get less opportunity to engage in several segments, unlike Communicative
Language Teaching.
 Grammar Translation Method mainly a teacher-centered method that’s why learners get
less opportunity to interact with the teachers.
 The students are not offered to produce their own sentences in the classroom.
 They get less opportunity to develop their speaking and listening skills.
  Oral interaction is avoided in GTM.
 Accuracy is more emphasized then fluency in GTM.
 The learners can develop their reading and writing skills but fail to communicate with the
real world.
 Translations are often unsatisfactory as they are done word by word.
 Students have to learn a lot of grammatical terms and too much weight falls on their
memories.

Merits of Grammar Translation Method

 It makes the concept more clear and new words, phrases, and vocabulary is introduced.
 It promotes the skills of reading and writing effectively.
 For class conduction, very less teacher material aid is needed and also, this method can
be taught in overcrowded classes.
 Students feel comfortable as the mother tongue is used to teach any foreign language and
they are free to ask the questions.

Demerits of Grammar Translation Method

 One of the major demerits of GTM is that it restricts the skills of speaking and listening
to a foreign language.
 The natural order of learning any language is listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
But, in GTM, reading is facilitated first.
 Proper conversational skills in a foreign language still remain a hurdle.
 GTM focuses on formal and bookish grammar rules. So it does not enhance proper
learning of the foreign language.
 It takes time to translate each and every word under GTM as students are well versed in
their mother tongue and they need time to think to Translate.