It focuses primarily on oral skills rather than reading or writing.

Students are encouraged to ask questions of the teacher and most interactions are teacher-to-student or student-to-teacher.

Repetition is key to ensuring that students can speak without errors in pronunciation.

Images and mimeda are frequently used to convey the meaning of vocabulary.

Language learners are smart and bring with them the experience of already learning a language.

Students need to learn to listen to themselves and trust others and themselves.

Students’ actions can tell the teacher whether or not they have learned,errors are important and necessary to learning.

The goal of this method is to "unsugnd" the psychological barriers that students bring with activating the level of their fully conscious mind.

Teachers want to accelerate students’ learning by making it seem easy and enjoyable.

Vocabulary is emphasized. Communicability through role plays is encouraged and practiced.

The students accomplish this by forming new habits

Students imitate, responding accurately to the teacher's prompts.

New vocabulary and structural patterns are presented through dialogue.

The natural order of skills is followed; listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

If students cantranslate, they are considered successful language learners.

Students learn vocabulary by memorizing native language equivalents for the target language vocabulary.

The main skills to develop are reading and writing, little attention is paid to speech, listening and pronunciation.

The method is to reduce the stress people feel when learning a foreign language.

Students only speak when they are ‘ready’, forcing them to speak earlier would only induce anxiety.

Vocabulary and grammatical structures are emphasized over other language areas,learners listen and respond physically to the commands.

The main goal of this method is to allow students to communicate, students need learn forms, meanings and linguistic functions.

Activities such as games, role plays, and problem-solving tasks are done so that students will use the language to communicate.

Errors are tolerated during fluency-based activities and may be focused on later during accuracy-based activities.