The Direct Method

If you’ve ever heard the Direct Method being taught, you may have rightly mistaken it for some

sort of military drill, which is not far off as it was first established in France and Germany in the

early 1900’s to assist soldiers to communicate in a second language quickly.

The direct method of teaching English is also known as the Natural Method. It’s used to teach a

number of different languages not just English, and the main idea of the Direct Method is that it

only uses the target language that the students are trying to learn.

Its main focus is oral skill and it is taught via repetitive drilling. Grammar is taught using an

inductive way and students need to try and guess the rules through the teacher’s oral

presentation.

Today popular forms of the Direct Method are Callan and Berlitz.

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