THE SILENT WAY

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THE SILENT WAY
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WHAT IS THE SILENT WAY

• It is a method to language teaching designed to
  enable students to become independent, autonomous
  and responsible learners.

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• The Silent Way was created by Caleb GATTEGNO,
  Egyptian author in 1960s.

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• Discovering and creating
• Phsical object
• Problem solving

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Bruner the benefits of TSW are

• 1. the increase in intellectual potency
• 2. the shift from extrinsic to intrinsic rewards
• 3. the learning of heuristic by discovering
• 4. the aid to conserving memory

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Benjamin Franklin

• Tell me and I forget
• teach me and I remember
• involve and I learn

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APPROACH

• THEORY OF LANGUAGE
• structural view of language
• to learn grammar inductively
• propositional meaning
• vocabulary as a central dimension
• THEORY OF LEARNING
• cognitivism
• silence
• awareness

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DESIGN

• Objectives
• Syllabus
• Learning Activities
• Roles of Teachers
• Roles of Learners
• Materials

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OBJECTIVES

• Giving beginning level students oral and aural
  facility.
• Near-native fluency in the target language
• Correct pronunciation.
• Providing the learner with a basic practical
  knowledge of the grammar

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SYLLABUS

• No fixed syllabus
• Beginning with student knowledge
• Developing syllabus from easy to complex

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LEARNING ACTIVITIES

• Simple linguistic signs
• Charts, Fidel Charts, rods and other aids

• Responses to commands, questions and visual cues

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ROLES OF LEARNERS

• Developing independence autonomy and
  responsibility
• Correcting each other
• Learning to work cooperatively

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ROLES OF TEACHERS

• Being silent as much as possible
• Helping if necessary
• Focusing on the students perception
• Providing exercises to insure their facilities
  with language.
• Respecting the autonomy of the learners

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MATERIALS

• Metal Pointer (for teacher)
• Reading Writing Exercises
• Color-sound charts
• Fidel chart
• Word chart
• Colored rods

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PROCEDURE

• Focusing on pronunciation
• Indicating stress, phrasing and intonation
• Practising sentence patterns, structure and
  vocabulary

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ADVANTAGES ?

• Fostering cooperating learning between
  individuals
• Saving time and energy for both teachers and
  students
• Increasing self-esteem of students

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DISADVANTAGES ?

• Studying in small groups
• Using only specific materials
• No creativity