What are the advantages and disadvantages of direct method in foreign language teaching?

The direct method is very popular, and its advantages are as follows: ① The use of various intuitive teaching AIDS and the extensive use of teaching methods close to real life are helpful to cultivate the ability to think in a foreign language; (2) Emphasize direct learning and direct application, and emphasize language practice, so that students have high learning enthusiasm and great interest; ③ Paying attention to oral and phonetic teaching can effectively cultivate students' language use ability.

Its disadvantages are: ① exclusion of mother tongue makes it difficult for students to understand some abstract and complicated concepts; ② There is no clear grammatical explanation, which leads to more grammatical errors in what students say.