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*Please note that your answers should be short and to the point.

- Write your answer in the space under each one of the questions below.

1- In the previous week on the Grammar-Translation Method, we learned that grammar was
taught deductively. In the Direct Method, grammar is taught inductively. Can you explain in short
the difference between deductive and inductive treatments of grammar?
1_that is by presentation and study of grammar rules which are then praticed through
translation exercises in most grammar translation texts a syllabus was followed for the
sequencing of grammar points These two approaches have been applied to grammar
teaching and learning.
2- What are some of the characteristics of the Direct Method that make it so distinct from the
Grammar-Translation Method?

3- It has been said that it may be advantageous to a teacher using the Direct Method not to
know his students’ native language. Do you agree? Why?

2_ *In this method grammar learnt inductively (that is the student discover the rules from exposure to the
languages

*Dilogues were frequently used to exemplify conversational style.

*It was considered vitally important that only the target language should be used in the class room.
*No translation is allowed.
*meaning is to be conveyed directly in target throught the use of demonestration and visual aids with no
recourse to the student native language.

3_No, it changes according to the level of the student that the teacher uses
the target language or the a nitiv in my opinion it is good to use teacher
some nitiv language.

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