METHODS AND APPROACHES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Do you know what method this is?

THE SILENT WAY

BY CALEB GATTEGNO

DESCRIPTION

Silent Way visual, spoken and written techniques can help students discover and learn from their mistakes, putting them on the path toward linguistic independence.

Extensive use of silence as a teaching technique.

 That learning is facilitated if the learner discovers rather than remembers or repeats. That learning is aided by material objects. That problem-solving is fundamental to learning

Word Chart

One of several word charts traditionally used in a Silent Way classroom. This Chart superimposes the Silent Way's phoneme color codes onto text.

VOWEL CHART

A sample of the Silent Way's color coding with corresponding vowel pronunciation.

SILENT WAY TRANSLATION

The Silent Way's "Fidel Chart"

A chart detailing The Silent Way's color codes applied to common English phonemes

Silent Way visual

Finger technique Used to Isolate a Word.

Cuisenaire Rods

The next images in this set detail related to semi-related projects that hybridize color and language, and which have pedagogical potential. Although traditionally used to teach mathematics, Cuisenaire Rods can be utilized for teaching literacy by creating " visible and tangible situations from which the students can induce the structures of the language