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jueves, 18 de julio de 2013

Direct Mehod's Principles

''The Direct Method''

What I do like about this method Is the way of the students apprendiceship because I think that, it is better to get accostume hearing the target language everyday without the use of our mother's tongue language; however, I consider that grammar rules should be connected hand to hand with pronunciation and listening comprehension in order to have a better idea of what are you going to say.

It is known that nowadays ''The Direct Method'' is using grammar rules in order to studens understand better, but the most importat skills for me are pronunciation and listening as the direct method propose because it does not matter if you know a lot of vocabulary if you cannot pronounce it in the correct way. Furthermore, the reformers movement decided to add other skills besides pronunciation and listening since Roger brown documented his point of view of the direc method.

''Speaking'' one of the most importat skills of
 ''The Direct Method''
Regarding the response from the ''Direct Method'' against ''The Grammar-Translation Method'', I think the direct method is better, why? Because the most important things of a target language is learn how to speak and communicate with others, furthermore, some people have the ability to develop the grammar part of a target language and some others are good in reading comprehension but pronunciation is going to be the most important skill in a target language.

 what I do not like about the direct method is when we do not have similarities between The Target Language and The Mother's Tongue Language because it is pretty difficult understand grammar pronunciation or grammar rules in a laguage in which exist a long difference in your mother's tongue language; we have the case of japanese language, I think is pretty rude starting a class speaking and writhing in that language if you do not know anything about it; so, there we have the contra part of the direc method because sometimes the mother's tongue language is needed in order to understand better.


What did you get about the topic?
what I did understand about the Silent Method is that students take a passive role, it means that they only receive the information that the teacher provides them and it is up to the students to investigate more. Regarding The Audio-lingual Method I understood that it develops pronunciation and listening comprehension through  dialogues and other skills, and it has similarities with the direct method in the skills they want to develop in a student.

domingo, 14 de julio de 2013




This quote is the most important in my opinion because if we analyze it, and we go deeper in this quote, you can notice that professionals would'nt exist without teaching.

Nowadays teachers are being understimated by the society or by many people who don't understant the meaning of teaching; for that reason, people see teachers like a poor career, but they don't understand the teacher's labor which is really important since the very beginning of our apprenticeship. 
Here i have many quotes about the teacher's role in the society is pretty interesting.

So, for me it is important to recognize teacher's job , and also be thankful with them because there are lawyers,  architects,  engineers, and so many profession thank to the teacher's labor.