Characteristics of GT Method

1. A fundamental purpose of learning a foreign language is to be able to read literature written in it.
2. Literary language is superior to spoken language. Thus, more attention is given to reading and writing than speaking, pronunciation, and listening.
3. Language learning provides a good mental exercise.
4. The teacher is the authority in the classroom.
5. Classes are taught in the mother tongue with little active use of the target language.
6. Most vocabulary is taught in the form of lists of isolated words. 
7. Long elaborate explanations of the intricacies of grammar are given.
8. Grammar provides the rules for putting words together, and instruction often focuses on the form and inflection of words.
9. Reading of difficult classical texts begun early.
10. Little attention is paid to the content of texts which are treated as exercises in grammatical analysis. 
11. Often the drills are exercises in translating disconnected sentences from the target language into the mother tongue. 
12. Little or no attention is given to pronunciation.
13. Accuracy is focused and errors are not accepted.
14. It is based on the faculty of psychology as a mental training.
15. It is a teacher-friendly method of teaching language.
16. Grammar is taught deductively.
17. Students are evaluated by asking to translate a text from their native language to the target language or vice versa.

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