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  2. Direct method (education) - Wikipedia

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    Many of the language departments of the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department adopted the Method starting in 2012. [1] [2] In general, teaching focuses on the development of oral skills. [3] Characteristic features of the direct method are: teaching concepts and vocabulary through pantomiming, real-life objects and other visual ...

  3. Language pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    The direct method operates on the idea that second language learning must be an imitation of first language learning, as this is the natural way humans learn any language: a child never relies on another language to learn its first language, and thus the mother tongue is not necessary to learn a foreign language. This method places great stress ...

  4. Eclectic approach - Wikipedia

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    Eclectic approach is a method of language education that combines various approaches and methodologies to teach language depending on the aims of the lesson and the abilities of the learners. [1] Different teaching methods are borrowed and adapted to suit the requirement of the learners. It breaks the monotony of the class.

  5. Natural approach - Wikipedia

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    The natural approach is a method of language teaching developed by Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terrell in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Natural Approach has been used in ESL classes as well as foreign language classes for people of all ages and in various educational settings, from primary schools to universities. [1]

  6. Language education - Wikipedia

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    Examples of functional methods include the oral approach / situational language teaching. Examples of interactive methods include the direct method, the series method, communicative language teaching, language immersion, the Silent Way, suggestopedia, the natural approach, tandem language learning, total physical response, Teaching Proficiency ...

  7. Communicative language teaching - Wikipedia

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    The development of communicative language teaching was bolstered by these academic ideas. Before the growth of communicative language teaching, the primary method of language teaching was situational language teaching, a method that was much more clinical in nature and relied less on direct communication. In Britain, applied linguists began to ...

  8. Silent Way - Wikipedia

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    The Silent Way is a language-teaching approach created by Caleb Gattegno that is notable for the 'silence' of the teacher. (Who is not actually mute, but who rarely, if ever, models language for the students.) Gattegno first described the approach in 1963, in his book Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools: The Silent Way. [1]

  9. Direct instruction - Wikipedia

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    Direct instruction (DI) is the explicit teaching of a skill set using lectures or demonstrations of the material to students. A particular subset, denoted by capitalization as Direct Instruction , refers to the approach developed by Siegfried Engelmann and Wesley C. Becker that was first implemented in the 1960s.