Didactics

When a child learns the mother tongue, he forms the concept and grasps the situation and learns the meaning of words simultaneously.

The advocates of the Bilingual Method believe that it is a waste of time to recreate the situation while teaching a foreign language.

Their argument is that teaching-learning process is facilitated if only the mother tongue equivalents are given to the learner without duplicating the situation.

The Bilingual Method, therefore, makes use of the mother tongue in this restricted manner. It differs from the Grammar Translation Method in two ways: