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They did not stop the students and correct them if the learning session is in progress because the student interpreters might hold them back and therefore be afraid of making mistakes . Therefore, they stop participating and would not learn the target language. The teachers of the American Language Institute prefer the direct method and integrate it with another deductive method that the student has ……. This method is applied by the teacher I met. She asked the students to learn some idioms and they role-played in groups. Each group had to invent a scene involving some idioms which they had to perform in front of the students. If the students did not mention the idioms correctly and accurately, she took them back when they finished. He also asked the students to count how many idioms they learned out of ten: if they got them all, this means that their performance was excellent. Having a student act in a situation similar to the real one improves the student's memory to remember the same situation in the future. That is, they corresponded to real events that they apparently would store in long-term memory. They would also be able to use it in the exact context that requires them to use these types of idioms. An engaging expression related to the discourse of our daily life would entice students to learn more and more because of