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The silent way method

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Created on November 30, 2020

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  • Linguist Noarn Chomsky argued thar language acquisition could not possibly take place through habit formation since people create and understand utterances they have never heard before.
  • Rather than simply being responsive to stimuli in the environment, learners were seen to be much more actively responsible for their own learn ing, engaged in formula ting hypotheses in order to discover the rules of the target language.
  • The teacher walks to the from of the room, takes out a metal pointer and points to a chart hanging a bove the blackboard.
  • Without saying anything, the teacher points in succession to each of five blocks of color-above the line. There is silence.
  • Apparently satisfied that the students can produce the five sounds accurately.
  • The teacher moves to the chart and points to five colored blocks.
  • The three other blocks are below the line and are new to them.
  • Sound-color chart
  • Teacher's silence
  • Peer correction
  • Rods
  • Self-correction gestures
  • Word Chart
  • Fidel charts
  • Structured feedback

Techniques and materials

Experience

Introduction

  • What are the goals of teachers who use the Silent Way?
  • What is the role of the teacher? What is the role of the students?
  • What are some characteristics of the teaching/learning process?
  • What is the nature of student-teacher interaction? What is the nature of student-student interaction?
  • How are the feelings of the students dealt with?
  • How is language viewed? How is culture viewed?
  • What areas of language are emphasized? What language skills are emphasized ?
  • What is the role of the students' native language?
  • How is evaluation accomplished ?
  • How does the teacher respond to student errors?

The silent way

  • Observation: The teacher points to five blocks of color without saying anything.The blocks of color represent the sounds of five English vowels dose to the five simple vowels of Portuguese.
  • Principle: The teacher should Start with something the students already know and build from that to the unknow n. Languages share a number of features, sounds being the most basic.

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