The direct method focuses on oral communication and teaching grammar inductively through examples rather than explicit rule explanation. The teacher's role is to direct class activities while learners are actively engaged through techniques like reading aloud, questioning, self-correction, and conversations without using their mother tongue. Advantages include effective and meaningful learning through self-correction, while disadvantages are that it may not be suitable for advanced learners and does not use students' mother tongue.
1. Direct Method
Learning-
Teacher’s Learner’s
Focus Teaching Techniques
Role Role
Process
Communication To Direct the Active
• Realia • Reading Aloud
class activities Participation
•Grammar (I) •Question and
•Culture answer
•No Mother •Self-correction
tongue is •Conversacion
permitted •Fill-in-the-
Advantages Disadvantages blanks
•Oral
Communication •Dictation
•Map drawing
•Voc >
Effective Advanced Learners •Paragraph
Grammar writing.
Meaningful No use of the
Learning mother tongue
Self-correction Grammar
