ASSIGNMENT+1

=ASSIGNMENT 1: MAKE SURE YOU CLICK ON THE DISCUSSION LINK ABOVE TO POST YOUR WORK. IT'S THE LINK NEXT TO "EDIT."= Direct method holds the key to the student to learn the language without apparent effort is to live the language and the language is learned. In summary form these would be most noticeable features: - Theories are not in front of the class. - Little systematized beliefs, intuitive and largely inspired by the observation of what happens during the process of acquiring language. **Participatory Learning:** Students in this method are active listeners and participatory. Interact with the teacher and peers. **Content selection criteria as situational, not grammar:** Grammar is a reference secondary teachers should not explain it but to let the students infer internally following the practice of language use. It is the communicative situation which would define the content type to be developed. **Errors are corrected immediately:** the errors are corrected in the interactive process, suggesting the teacher other phrases, words or pronunciation models tighter. When corrected within the normal flow of conversation correction is not perceived by the student as a punishment but as an improvement.
 * The Direct Method: **
 * The class that follows the direct method can be characterized by the following points ** : Interaction communicative teacher-student interaction is principal in the implementation of this method. This interaction is primarily oral, based on some sort of message along the lines of natural learning. Only in the second stage can begin entering the written interaction. Limited to situations related to everyday life of speakers of a community. For this reason the content should be relevant.
 * Teaching resources: ** it uses objects, drawings, gestures, and generally anything that can mobilize the human senses to facilitate or encourage the transmission of the meaning of words or phrases. It thus seeks to direct association between word and meaning without the mediation of pupil's mother tongue.
 * Teaching guided but not authoritarian: ** it is task of the teacher guide students towards learning the language, but this guide is authoritative, since the degree of flexibility is high. There remains a wide margin for both teacher and students define targets more accurately redirecting the purpose of the class.
 * Partially open education: ** the teacher has a great deal of autonomy and responsibility to change or supplement what they offer manuals.
 * The handbooks are reference guides: ** the lack of definition of the method in concrete operational terms is seen in the textbooks, which seems to only be encouraging interaction in everyday situations, the rest being the responsibility of the teacher, who must possess initiative and imagination to apply them in class and develop properly.
 * Selección del vocabulario según criterios de uso en situaciones comunicativas: ** no restringe la enseñanza del vocabulario al uso literario, aunque este no está excluido, pero su centro de interés está en las palabras de uso cotidiano. No obstante se excluyen palabras tabú o términos excesivamente coloquiales.
 * Los objetivos gramaticales se adquieren mediante el método inductivo: ** como la eficacia del aprendizaje para este método se centra en la práctica, la adquisición lingüística no se logra mediante la comprensión analítica y abstracta de los problemas, sino como resultado del uso repetido.
 * Grammatical objectives are acquired by the inductive method: the ** effectiveness of learning for this method focuses on practical language acquisition is not achieved by analytical and abstract understanding of the problems, but as a result of repeated use.
 * The translation is forbidden: ** it relies on other mechanisms for the interpretation of the meaning of a word or phrase.