The silent method

The silent waymethod

By: Isabel Fernández Ayambo

Index

What is it?

When was it created?

Main characteristics

Teacher's role

Student's role

Advantages & Disadvantages

What is it?

- Silence is the main element.- Students are the protagonists. - It encourages them to produce the most language possible. - Students make their own discoveries

When was it created?

Egyptian educator, psychologist, and mathematician.

Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools: The Silent Way. - 1963

Main Characteristics

Interactive tools:

Sound color chartTelescopic metal pointer Cuisenaire rodsWall pictures

Slow methodTakes time Takes patienceTakes efford

Teacher´s role

• Be a guide.

• Encourages students.

• Focuses students.

• Must concentrate on how students learn.

• Must not interfere.

• Must look for progress, not perfection.

Student´s role

• Engaged in the process.

• Express thoughts, feelings, and needs.

• Trial and error. Experimentation.

• Assume more responsibility.

• Be cooperative.

• Explore the language. Develop their own inner criteria.

Advantages & Disadvantages

Advantages

• Students interact with each other
• Improves creativity and concentration
• Improves long term memory
• Improves responsability, independance and autonomy

Disadvantages

• Limited by the materials
• Students might struggle/be confused
• Minimum help by the teacher

Explanatory video

Kid example

Cuisenaire rods

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