IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DIRECT METHOD OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN FRENCH TEXTBOOKS USED IN GALICIA (THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY)

Abstract. The article under discussion deals with the analysis of French textbooks used at the lessons ofthe French language in Galicia in the first half of the twentieth century. The authors carry out an overview ofthe sources relevant to the issue under study and prove that the topic has never been an object of any scientificresearch before. In the article, we have reviewed five French textbooks and identified the main method of Frenchlanguage teaching implemented in them. The books, which were used, can be divided into three groups – textbooks,readers, and grammar reference books. All the textbooks under analysis were recommended by the educationauthority of Galicia. The textbooks are analyzed according to the criteria proposed by N. Borysko. Thus, the Frenchtextbooks used in Galicia are found to be compiled by means of the direct method of teaching foreign languagesthat is marked with a wide range of phonetic material, the absence of translation exercises, the emphasis ona practical approach to improving foreign language competencies.