Second Week: Dr. Muna Alkhateeb The Direct Method 1

7. The Students’ Role
The teacher and the students are more like partners in the teaching/learning process. Teacher/student 
interaction became fuller, guessing of context or content, completing fill-ins, and doing “cloze” exercises were 
the order of the day. The students’ role in direct method is the active learner. They are active in exploring new 
words, expression, etc. in target language. The students are also the observer and practitioner. In direct 
method, the students observe the target language used by the teacher in teaching and they try to get the meaning 
based on the demonstration given and then they will practice the target language they observed and they use 
it to communicate with their friends and teacher in classroom.