English faculty 2 Group 406 Abdujalilova Dilorom Direct task 2. Answer the questions What is the difference between direct method and grammar-translation method?
There is no translation in this method.
What kind of characteristic features of the direct method do you know?
All teaching is done in the target language, grammar is taught inductively, there is a focus on speaking and listening, and only useful ‘everyday' language is taught. The weakness in the Direct Method is its assumption that a second language can be learnt in exactly the same way as a first, when in fact the conditions under which a second language is learnt are very different.
Can you enumerate the essentials of direct method?
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Concepts are taught by means of objects or by natural contexts through the mental and physical skills of the teacher only.
Oral training helps in reading and writing listening and speaking simultaneously.
Grammar is taught indirectly through the implication of the situation creation
Can you tell us the additional information about natural method?
There was an attempt to set up conditions that imitate mother tongue acquisition, which is why the beginnings of these attempts were called the natural method. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, Sauveur and Franke proposed that language teaching should be undertaken within the target-language system, which was the first stimulus for the rise of the direct method.
The audio-lingual method was developed in an attempt to address some of the perceived weaknesses of the direct method.
3. Mark the following statements as true (T), false (F)
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Techniques
Question/answer exercise (T)
the teacher chooses a grade-appropriate passage and reads it aloud.
Dictation (T)
the teacher asks questions of any type and the student answers.
Reading aloud (T)
the students take turn reading sections of a passage, play or a dialogue aloud.
Student self-correction (F)
the students are asked to write a passage in their own words.
Paragraph writing (F)
when a student makes a mistake the teacher offers him/her a second chance by giving a choice
Conversation practice (T)
the students are given an opportunity to ask their own questions to the other students or to the teacher. This enables both a teacher-learner interaction as well as a learner-learner interaction.
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4. Discuss the teacher’s and learner’s role with your partner and add additional information about the problem
TEACHER'S ROLE
LEARNER'S ROLE
is to direct the class activities
is less passive than in the grammar translation method
encourage students to participate in class by asking them questions constantly
is student self-correction
corrects their mistakes immediately
have to speak a lot that means that their communicative skills are emphasized.
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