Direct method of teaching

Direct method of teaching English means teaching English directly using target language. A teacher doesn’t utilise the mother tongue in the class while teaching. Nor are the students allowed to use it. This method is totally in contrast of Translation Method.

Pros:

• The focus is on Oral Practice. Thus, the pronunciation of the learners improves.
• Improvising vocabulary skills.
• It aids in good fluency.
• Using direct method, a teacher helps students having good command over English.
• The teacher proceeds from particular to general and from concrete to abstract.
• Contains multiple resources.

Cons:

• Owing to over-emphasis on oral practice, the other skills namely reading and writing are ignored to a great extent.
• Difficulties in understanding the language. 
• For this method, competent teachers must be there. But there is the dearth of good English teachers in the country. 
• Incompetent teachers can’t use this method successfully.
• In the early stage of learning, this method is completely unsuccessful.
• The background at home must also be foreign language friendly for this method. The students whose parents can speak English well get more benefit from this method.