1- Students’ security is initially enhanced by using their native language.
2- The purpose of using the native language is to provide a bridge from the familiar to the unfamiliar.
3- Where possible, literal native language equivalents are given to the target language words that have been transcribed.
4- This makes their meaning clear and allows students to combine the target language words in different ways to create new sentences.
5- Directions in class and sessions during which students express their feelings and are understood are conducted in the native language.
6- In later stages, of course, more and more of the target language can be used.
7- By the time students are in Stages III and IV, their conversations have few native language words and phrases.
8- In a class where the students speak a variety of native languages, conversations take place right from the start in the target language.
9- Meaning is made clear in other ways, with pantomime, pictures and the use of target language synonyms, for example.