#1. It is focused on speaking ability and started with stress and intonation.
#2. Almost all lessons are begun with dialogues and conversational style.
Direct Approach
Almost all lessons are begun with dialogues and conversational style.
Pictures and actions are used to make meaning clear.
Teachers should be native-like proficient.
The meaning should be connected directly with the native language without translation.
Grammar is taught using the inductive method.
#3. It is based on using the language in the classroom indirectly and spontaneously.
Natural Approach
It is based on using the language in the classroom indirectly and spontaneously.
There is no analysis of grammar rules and no correction of mistakes.
This approach considers language as communication learning.
The second language is learned the same way as children learn their mother tongue.
#4. Teachers should be native-like proficient.
Direct Approach
Almost all lessons are begun with dialogues and conversational style.
Pictures and actions are used to make meaning clear.
Teachers should be native-like proficient.
The meaning should be connected directly with the native language without translation.
Grammar is taught using the inductive method.
#5. Students memorize grammatical rules and lists of vocabulary
Grammar -Translation Approach
It is based on a translation from the target language into the mother language
Students memorize grammatical rules and lists of vocabulary.
Teachers use the mother language most of the lesson.