| source | .. main characteristics are:
1. The use of everyday vocabulary and structure.
2. Grammar taught by situation.
3. Use of | Mackey, W. M. (1965, p.151) |
There is almost unanimity on the following essential features of the direct method:
1) Good pronunciation (practical phonetics) 2. Real reading not mere eye-reading, forms the basis of instruction; 3. systematic oral work; 4. a modicum of grammar - preferably taught inductively; 5. A minimum of translation; 6. much use of "free" composition. | Skidmore, Mark (1917, p.224) |
It is still erroneously employed here and there as synonymous with natural method. Strictly it means the French méthode directe. I am sure the term is applied to a highly commendable eclecticism - indefinite though this term be. | Skidmore, Mark (1917, p.223) |
... the Direct Method differed from the Natural Method only in its attempts to find a scientific rationale for its procedures. Like the Natural Method the Direct Method aimed at presenting language to the pupil without making him resort to grammatical analysis. But Direct Methodists had recourse to psychology, phonetics and new types of structural analysis (see Palmer's "Ergonics") to build their courses. | Kelly, G. (1969, p.12) |