The Silent Way

The method was created in early 70’s by Caleb Gattegno. This innovated the role of the teacher because he/she tries to avoid to speak with his/her student while they are practically working, teaching, learning, correcting, sharing and doing the class by themselves just like Gattegno said "the teacher works with the student; the student works on the language."

The silent way does not means that teachers do not planned the class, on the contrary, the must think about the resources and topics because this method works with key words (nouns, verbs, values and so on…) written on the color coded.

We believe that our classmates worked so well in it (they used the urban tribes topic), because we did not have any problem with the activities. However, we think that Silent Way should be applied in an intermediate or advanced level students because the listening and speaking are used a lot and the fluency is very important.

Next video, the teacher gives instruction (notice the color coded on the blackboard)

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