Week 9 (Out class)

Overview of the Silent Way
Caleb Gattegno founded the silent way as a method for language learning in the early 70s, sharing many of the same essential principles as the cognitive code and making good use of the theories underlying discovery learning. Some of Gattagno's basic theories were that" The teacher should be subodinated" and " The teacher works with the student; the student work on the language". The most prominent characteristic of the medthod was that the teacher typically stayed "silent" most of the time, as part of his/her rule as facilitator and stimulator, and thus the method's popular name. Language learning is usually seen as problem solving activity to be engaged in by the students both independently and as a group, and the teacher needs to stay out of way in the process as much as posible.

Objective of the Silent Way
Teacher using the way want their students to become highly independent and experrimental learner. Marking errors is a natal part of the process learning process is seen as trial and error. The teacher tries to facilitate activities whereby the students discover for themselves the conceptual rule governing the language, rether than imitating or memorizing them.

Key Features
Richard and Robgers, they describe the key heories uderlying the silent way.
1. Learning is facilitated if the learner discover or creats rather than remembers and repeats what is to be learn.
2. Learning is facilitated by accompanying physical object
3. Learning is the facilitated by problem-soving the meterial to be learned.

Typical Techniques
Larsen-Freeman says in his book techniques and principles in language teaching provides expanded descriptions of some common/typical techniques closely associated with te silent way. The listing here is in summary from only.
- sound color chart
- teacher's silent
- peer correction
- rods
- self correction gestures
- word chart
- fidel chart
- structured feedback.

Sound color chart
Teacher refers students to a color-coded wall chart depicting individual sound in the target language-students use this point out and build words with correct pronunciation.