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The Silent Way Method

Angela López

Created on March 28, 2022

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The Silent Way Method

Done by: Ángela M. López

What is it?

BACKGROUND

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The teacher should be silent as much as possible in the classroom but the learner should be encouraged to produce as much language as possible.

It is a method designed to enable students to become independent, autonomous and responsable learners.

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The focus of the method is students needs and abilities.

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Teacher does not provide the knowledge, students are suppoused to make their own discoveries.

AUTHOR

The Silent Method was created by Caleb Gattengo, Egyptian author in 1960s.

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"I don't teach, I let them learn."

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Theory of Learning

Theory of Language

  1. Learning is facilitated if the learners discovers and creates.
  2. Learning is facilitated by accompanying physical objects.
  3. Learning is facilitated by problem solving.
  1. Structural view of language to learn grammar inductively.
  2. Spirit and Feel.
  3. Vocabulary as a central dimension.
  4. Artificial approach.

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OBJECTIVES

To give beginning level students oral and aural facility in basic elements of the target language.

Near-native fluency in the target language.

To provide the learner with a basic practical knowledge of grammar.

Phonological elements as a starting point in learning a language.

Silence is the best vehicle for learning, in silence students concentrate.

Vocabulary is the central domain of language learning and is highly important.

ROLES

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Role of Teachers

Role of Learners

Metal Pointer.Charts. Reading and Writing exercises.

MATERIALS

Fidel Chart

Sound-color Chart

Word Chart

Lesson Format

Teacher is a MODEL and uses the POINTER.

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