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    The Direct Method (DM) focuses on teaching students a foreign language through direct exposure to the target language without translation. Key principles include using demonstration, teaching grammar inductively, and emphasizing oral communication, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The teacher's role is to facilitate communication between students and guide self-correction of errors. Techniques include reading aloud, question-answer exercises, fill-in-the-blank, and dictation to promote practice of new vocabulary and structures. While effective for motivated private students, DM is difficult to implement widely due to demands on teachers and benefits primarily intelligent students.

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    The Direct Method (DM) focuses on teaching students a foreign language through direct exposure to the target language without translation. Key principles include using demonstration, teaching grammar inductively, and emphasizing oral communication, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The teacher's role is to facilitate communication between students and guide self-correction of errors. Techniques include reading aloud, question-answer exercises, fill-in-the-blank, and dictation to promote practice of new vocabulary and structures. While effective for motivated private students, DM is difficult to implement widely due to demands on teachers and benefits primarily intelligent students.

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    The Direct Method (DM) focuses on teaching students a foreign language through direct exposure to the target language without translation. Key principles include using demonstration, teaching grammar inductively, and emphasizing oral communication, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The teacher's role is to facilitate communication between students and guide self-correction of errors. Techniques include reading aloud, question-answer exercises, fill-in-the-blank, and dictation to promote practice of new vocabulary and structures. While effective for motivated private students, DM is difficult to implement widely due to demands on teachers and benefits primarily intelligent students.

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    The Direct Method (DM) focuses on teaching students a foreign language through direct exposure to the target language without translation. Key principles include using demonstration, teaching grammar inductively, and emphasizing oral communication, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The teacher's role is to facilitate communication between students and guide self-correction of errors. Techniques include reading aloud, question-answer exercises, fill-in-the-blank, and dictation to promote practice of new vocabulary and structures. While effective for motivated private students, DM is difficult to implement widely due to demands on teachers and benefits primarily intelligent students.

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    DM

    - Natural Method/ Reform Method


    Core principles of DM:
    - The goal of instruction is learning how to
    1. Teacher’s goal use a foreign language to communicate

    2. The roles of the teacher and - The Direct Method has one very basic
    students rule: No translation is allowed (This is the
    3. Teaching-learning process fundamental difference between GTM and
    DM)
    4. Classroom interaction
    - The meaning is to be conveyed directly in
    5. Language focus
    the target language through the use of
    6. Teacher’s reponse to students’
    demonstration and visual aids
    errors
    - Grammar is taught inductively ( GTM:
    7. Techniques
    deductively)

    1. Teacher’s goal
    Teachers who use the Direct Method intend that students learn how to
    communicate in the target language. Students should learn to think in the
    target language.

    2. The roles of the teacher and students


    The teacher and the students are more like partners in the teaching-
    learning process

    Students’ role less passive


    3. Teaching-learning process
    - Demonstration is needed

    - Grammar is taught inductively in which students discover the rules

    - Students practice vocabulary by using new words in complete sentences

    - The syllabus is topic-based (geography, money, or the weather) or


    situation-based (use at a bank, use when going shopping)

    4. Classroom interaction
    - Teacher-student

    - Student-student: teacher – directed

    5. Language focus
    - Vocabulary is emphasized over grammar

    - Oral communication is seen as basic

    - Pronunciation receives much attention

    6. Teacher’s reponse to students’ errors


    The teacher, employing various techniques, tries to get students to self-
    correct whenever possible

    7. Techniques
    - Reading aloud: Students take turns reading sections of a passage, play,
    or dialog out loud.

    - Question and answer exercise: Students are asked questions and answer
    in full sentences so that they practice new words and grammatical
    structures.
    - Getting students to self-correct: 3 ways

    Asking students to make a choice between what they said and an


    alternative answer

    Teacher repeats what a student has just said, using a questioning voice to
    signal to the student that something was wrong with it

    Teacher repeats what the student said, stopping just before the error. The
    student knows that the next word was wrong.

    - Conversation practice: The questions contained a particular grammar


    structure. Students practice asking questions using this structure

    - Fill-in-the-blank exercise: all items are in the target language no explicit


    grammar rule would be applied.

    - Dictation

    - Map drawing: students are given a map with the geographical features
    unnamed and do the exercises

    - Paragraph writing

    MERITS DEFECTS
    - DM is suitable for private - DM is not suitable for public
    language schools where student education with constrain of budget,
    were highly motivated (ít học sinh classroom size and teachers’
    trong 1 lớp) and where native background
    speaking teachers could be - It demands tremendously on
    employed (likely using native teacher. He should be fluent in
    language) second language and very
    - The method provides an resourceful in order to make the
    interesting and exciting ways of meaning clear in a variety of ways
    learning english through activities without using native language
    - DM is successful in developing the - Only highly intelligent students
    skill of listening and speaking in can profit from this method. Less
    very young children in elementary talented ones can make a direct
    schools because they have great association between foreign
    abilty to mimic phrases and situations

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