We study the form factors for semileptonic decays of D-mesons. That is, we consider the matrix element of the weak left-handed quark current for the transitions D → P and D → V , where P and V are light pseudoscalar or vector mesons, respectively. Our motivation to perform the present study of these form factors are future calculations of non-leptonic decay amplitudes.We consider the form factors within a class of chiral quark models. Especially, we study how the Large Energy Effective Theory (LEET) limit works for D-meson decays. Compared to previous work we also introduce light vector mesons V = ρ, K * , ... within chiral quark models. In order to determine some of the parameters in our model, we use existing data and results based on some other methods like lattice calculations, light-cone sum rules, and heavy-light chiral perturbation theory.We also obtain some predictions within our framework.