Direct method is a method of teaching a foreign language with minimal use of the pupil's native language and of formal grammar. It was established in Germany and France around 1900.
By direct method, teaching and learning process is held without using their native language. If they are studying English language, they have to speak in English along the class. One basic principle in this method is “No Translation is allowed”.
Direct method is also called as natural method because it uses naturalistic principles of language learning (Jack C. Richard and Theodore S. Rodger: 1992). This term also derived from the school which L Sauveur had opened in Boston in the late 1860s. Sauveur and other believers in the Natural Method argued that a foreign language could be taught without translation or the use of the learner’s native tongue if meaning was conveyed directly through demonstration and action. According to Franke, a language could best be taught by using it actively in the classroom.
In fact, the direct method receives its name from the fact that meaning is to be conveyed directly in the target language through the use of demonstration and visual aids, with no recourse to the students’ native language (Diller 1978).
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