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The direct method of teaching, which is sometimes called the natural method, and is often (but not exclusively) used in teaching foreign languages, refrains from using the learners' native language and uses only the target language. It was established in Germany and France around 1900 and contrasts with the grammar–translation method and other traditional approaches, as well as with C.J.Dodson's bilingual method. It was adopted by key international language schools such as Berlitz and Inlingua in the 1970s and many of the language departments of the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department in 2012.
In general, teaching focuses on the development of oral skills. Characteristic features of the direct method are:
- teaching concepts and vocabulary through pantomiming, real-life objects and other visual materials
- teaching grammar by using an inductive approach (i.e. having learners find out rules through the presentation of adequate linguistic forms in the target language)
- centrality of spoken language (including a native-like pronunciation)
- focus on question-answer patterns
Direct method may refer to
- Direct method (education) for learning a foreign language
- Direct method (computational mathematics) as opposed to iterative method
- Direct methods (crystallography) for estimating the phases of the Fourier transform of the scattering density from the corresponding magnitudes
- Direct method in calculus of variations for constructing a proof of the existence of a minimizer for a given functional
- Direct method (accounting) as opposed to indirect method for calculating cash flows
Usage examples of "direct method".
The direct method of the Supramental yoga would be to know the subliminal or the psychic being and open it to the Higher Power.
But the little problem is intended to illustrate a simple direct method.
And they had a very direct method of expressing their displeasure at the quality of layout.
The direct method raised wages by decreasing the incentive to work for wages.
Lifting her from the water seemed the most direct method for saving her.
The brutally direct method was designed to conceal the real American problem—.
The trend over the last fifteen hundred years - the years of Uncle Slovius's reign - had favoured virtual delving over the direct method.
They hadn't learned a direct method from Kitarak for that, so they tried their old visual methods, imagining the link as four ropes tied in a knot and themselves as a spinning kyorkcha slicing through the knot.
Not having all the time in the world to talk her out of her fear, I opted for a more direct method and vanished.
In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.