The Use of the Direct Method in Teaching English as a Target Language for Communiction

This research focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of the Direct Method to give instructions how to use it to communicate in the target language.The article analyzes the peculiarities of the use of this method to understand how to create an effective immersive environment and to develop students' skills of thinking in a foreign language rather than constantly looking for analogies with their mother tongue.This article highlights the principles of the Direct Method which allows students to effectively and quickly achieve the desired result, namely free and fast communication in a foreign language.The main focus of the Direct Method is to develop conversational communication skills in a foreign language by minimizing the use of the native language and forming a language reflex that allows not only to speak, but also to think in the language being studied with the simplicity and ease of using a foreign language in practice.It is stated in the article that are certain methods that are included into the Direct Method, namely 1) the Audio-lingual method which focuses on listening and speaking over reading and writing, 2) TPR (Total Physical Response) and 3) TPR storytelling, which combines the previously mentioned methods in a connective context, and 3) TPR storytelling.The article also gives some characteristics of the Direct Method.The essential characteristics are the following ones: The assimilation of new material is based on the use of language samples and the construction of sentences by analogy, simulating a similar one.In the process of learning, listening and repeating samples, reading texts, students must derive rules from them themselves, with subsequent transformation of them into a complete system.The creation of vocabulary requires the use of context due