Gouin And The Series Method

Gouin and The Series Method is a direct method in teaching language that developed by Francois Gouin in 19th century.This method taught the students without any translation and grammar .This method created based on his experience when he learned Germany.During his first year in Germany he memorized books, translated Goethe and Shiller and then memorized 30000 words but he still couldn't speak Germany.On the returning home he discovered that his three-years-old nephew during that year had gone through the wonderful stage of child language acquisition in which he went from saying virtually nothing to become a veritable chatter-box of French.

He was interested to know how this little child succeeded so easily in a first language, then he came to a conclusion that language is a means of thinking, representating the world to oneself.Language is a matter of transforming perceptions into conceptions.

This methoud taught the learners with the sentences in sequence related to the theme.In this method, the key of a sentence is verbs and we have to teach our students with the language that related to their daily life.

Ex.

I walk in the classroom

I see a trash

I pick up the trash

I bring the trash to the garbage

I throw the trash into the garbage

-One of the basic principle of this method is students learn better using sentence than words.