The Silent Way - 6367 Words

I. The Silent Way On the years of 1960s’ the Audiolingual Method was under a strong challenge in the form of the Cognitive Code and an educational trend known as Discovery Learning. These concepts most directly challenged the idea that language learning was all about mimicry and good habit-formation. An emphasis on human cognition in language learning addressed issues such as learners being more responsible for their own learning - formulating independent hypotheses about the rules of the target language and testing those hypotheses by applying them and realizing errors. When students create their own sets of meaningful language rules and concepts and then test them out, they are clearly learning through a discovery/exploratory†¦show more content†¦Language learning is usually seen as a problem solving activity to be engaged in by the students both independently and as a group, and the teacher needs to stay out of the way† in the process as much as possible. It has been stated that the Silent Way is also well known for its common use of small color rods of varying length (cuisenaire rods) and color coded word charts depicting pronunciation values, vocabulary and grammatical paradigms. It is a unique method and the first of its kind to really concentrate on cognitive principles in language learning. We can state that the benefits of this method are that the students arrive to produce independent and experimental language activities at the same time that develop their own interior criteria for the accuracy. For sure, the students would like this method. B. Background and Principles Caleb Gattegno, a mathematician and psychologist, developed the Silent Way approach. To give an exact description of how the lessons are structured is a little complicated. It has been found that Gattegno himself points out that â€Å"it is not a structural or a linguistic or a direct (or any other) method of teaching languages. 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