Column A: the main features of the Direct Method
①The students are encouraged to learn to think in the target language.
②The target language is used exclusively in the language classroom.
③Grammar is learned inductively.
④Oral communication skills are regarded as basic.
⑤The basic unit in a language is the sentence.
Column B: the advantage or disadvantage associated with the feature
a. Regarding listening and speaking as the basis of reading and writing is strategic in fostering the four skills.
b. Thinking in the target language is necessary in efficient real communication.
c. Learners lack a necessary knowledge of the target language grammar.
d. It is difficult to teach the meaning of abstract concepts.
e. Using full sentences as teaching units makes foreign language learning more natural and efficient.
