The Direct Method, Audio Lingual Method, And Suggestopedia

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Over centuries language teaching has gone through some changes, these changes that happened throughout history have reflected recognition of changes in the kind of proficiency learners need, such as a move toward oral proficiency rather than reading comprehension, they have also reflected the theories of the nature of language.
In the following essay, we will talk about some of the language teaching Methods such as:
The Direct Method, Audio-lingual Method, and Suggestopedia.
The Direct Method:
This method was invented by Charles Berlitz, a nineteenth-century linguist whose schools of language learning are famous throughout the world, it assumes that adults can learn any foreign language the same way they learned their mother tongue as children
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However, The Direct Method was considered a weak teaching method to be applied in schools because of many reasons. First, it depends on the communication skills mainly no attention is paid to writing and reading activities .Secondly, much time, effort and energy are wasted in addition to illustrate the meaning of many abstract vocabularies in (L2) to not translate in (L1) .The method meets a great achievement in the schools of learning languages as Berlitz until these days because the classes consist of small groups of students but in larger classes, this method is not properly applied and teaching in this method wouldn’t meet the needs of each student in large classes. Furthermore, this method as we mentioned, depends on the teachers, who are native speakers or have native-like fluency in the foreign language they teach, but in practice, it is difficult to meet these requirements and as a result of this absolute dependence on the teacher there is no space for creativity for the students, the language is artificial and there is no place for making …show more content…
Suggestopedia:
This Method was developed by Georgi Lazanov, who believes that human brain could absorb huge quantities of information and knowledge without any effort when both: brain and body are relaxed. This method differs from other methods in many things; the main characteristics of suggestopedia are the decoration, furniture, comfy armchairs, the use of music, the arrangement of the classroom. It’s like you are sitting in a living room rather than a classroom.
The kind of music used in the suggestopedia class is probably Baroque music with its ideal sixty beats per minute. In this classroom, the teacher has a great power and even adult learners are encouraged to behave as childlike as

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