The Silent Way

 The Silent Way

The Silent Way emphasises learner autonomy. The teacher acts merely as a facilitator trying to encourage students to be more active in their learning. The main of this way of teaching is for the teacher to say very little, so students can take control of their learning. There’s a big emphasis on pronunciation and a large chunk of the lesson focuses on it. This method of learning English follows a structural syllabus and grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation are constantly drilled and recycled for reinforcement. The teacher evaluates their students through careful observation, and it’s even possible that they may never set a formal test as learners are encouraged to correct their own language errors.

GENERAL OPINION

The silent method could help me in my language classes using the logical part, so I think that the silence method is a very good work strategy since the didactics guarantees the logical learning of the language because it is a method that is based on the idea  that the teacher should keep the utmost silence and encourage students to produce statements.

ADVANTAGE

It can be used mainly in teaching subjects such as mathematics, prepositions of place, phrases and pronunciation.

                                                    DISADVANTAGES 

Teaching vocabulary seems tedious and could become a barrier to learning.  At advanced levels it is not very effective, since it faces difficulties having fulfilled the task of teaching the language.