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Background

Goals

Role of the teacher

Caleb Gattegno

  • "Discovery learning"
  • Introduced in 1963
  • By Caleb Gattegno
  • Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools
  • November 11, 1911- July 28, 1988
  • Scientist, Mathematician, Educator, Inventor, Author
  • Foreign languages (The Silent Way)
  • Reading (Words in Color)
  • Pedagogical materials for each of these approaches
  • Author of more than 120 books
  • Silence as much as possible
  • Gestures
  • Monitor
  • Provides exercises
  • Never does a formal test
  • Help beginning level students
  • Gain fluency in the language
  • Give help if it is necessary
  • Silence is used as a tool
  • Errors are important
  • No homework

Objectives

  • Practice autonomy
  • Develop independence

The Silent Way Method

Advantages

Disadvantages

  • The learner works alone
  • The communication is lacking
  • Minimum help on the part of the teacher
  • The material (the rods and the charts) will fail
  • Feel comfortable
  • Active in class
  • Independent
  • Creativity
  • Discovery
  • Improve their vocabulary

By Adriana, Daniela, Karla

Role of the student

Techniques

Process

"Tell me and I forget,

Teach me and I remember,

Involve me and I learn"

  • Teaching techniques
  • Teaching materials
  • To use what they know
  • Independent
  • Exploring the language
  • Active participation
  • Attention to the teacher
  • Cuisenaire rods
  • Teacher´s silence
  • Peer correction
  • Fidel chart
  • Structured feedback
  • Self-correction gestures

By Benjamin Franklin

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