Teaching Methods Tefl

The Direct Method DM emerged in the 1890s largely as a response to the perceived inability of the Grammar-Translation Method to teach learners to genuinely communicate. The Audiolingual Method ALM gained attention in the 1950s largely in the USA where it was rooted in the military s need during World War II to train large volumes of personnel in disparate languages. Unlike a lot of the other methods and approaches of teaching English as a Second Language a lot of the L1 mother tongue is used for translation purposes.