In my opinion, as a teacher, direct method is appropriate, when teaching language at the beginner level because at this stage student are more concerned about accuracy rather than fluency. Beginners often have limited language skills some may not have acquired, or recognized grammatical structure in context, which can lead to challenges in communication. For example, teaching how to form simple present tense sentences provides a starting point for constructing them.However, from my experience, it depends on the level of language knowledge. If it’s, as I stated earlier, the beginner level, I try to explain in a more direct way, but still try to apply the contextual method, if possible. If choosing between direct and context teaching, I always choose the contextual approach, because it helps students understand not just the grammatical form, but also how it functions in communication. For example, the past perfect tense isn’t just about using the form, it’s about how to express a sequence of events that happened before another point in the past. By highlighting the meaning behind the form, help students move from mere recognition of structure to a deeper understanding of its communicative function.There is a risk when you are only teaching grammar out of context (directly), when grammar is taught in isolation or removed from context, it can become abstract or mechanical. Students learn the rules, but struggle to apply them in actual conversations or writing.As students’ progress, the key is to find a balance. First building accuracy through direct grammar teaching, and then expanding fluency through contextual use and practical application.As for my teaching experience, I like to use contextual teaching of grammar in comparison sentences, for students to see visually the differences between something. For example, during the lesson on the topic "Holiday", the grammar was "differences between past simple and present perfect tense". Firstly, I asked students to tell me sentence in past simple, that fits the topic, because this structure is better known to them, then present perfect one. I chose one sentence from their examples and wrote follow-up sentence in present perfect:"I visited Astana last summer.""I have visited Astana several times."Then I encouraged students to look at the differences and discuss when each tense was used. After some exploration, the students were able to identify the patterns themselves. Later on they wrote sentences depicting what they did at summer while truing to use this two grammatical structures by themselves. P.S. Sometimes when I feel lazy or out of ideas for contextual grammar tasks, I take them from this books. Good thing is there is a lot of tasks to choose from and they’re have different levels.
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