1. THE SILENT WAY

2. WHAT IS THE SILENT WAY
It is a method to language teaching designed to enable students to become independent, autonomous and responsible learners.

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

4. Discovering and creating
Phsical object
Problem solving

5. 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

6. Benjamin Franklin Tell me and I forget teach me and I remember
involve and I learn

7. 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

8. DESIGN Objectives Syllabus Learning Activities Roles of Teachers
Roles of Learners
Materials

9. 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

10. SYLLABUS No fixed syllabus Beginning with student knowledge
Developing syllabus from easy to complex

11. LEARNING ACTIVITIES Simple linguistic signs
Charts, Fidel Charts, rods and other aids
Responses to commands, questions and visual cues

12. ROLES OF LEARNERS Developing independence autonomy and responsibility
Correcting each other
Learning to work cooperatively

13. 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

14. MATERIALS Metal Pointer (for teacher) Reading & Writing Exercises
Color-sound charts
Fidel chart
Word chart
Colored rods

15. PROCEDURE Focusing on pronunciation
Indicating stress, phrasing and intonation
Practising sentence patterns, structure and vocabulary

16. ADVANTAGES  Fostering cooperating learning between individuals
Saving time and energy for both teachers and students
Increasing self-esteem of students

17. DISADVANTAGES  Studying in small groups Using only specific materials
No creativity