Thursday, January 25, 2018

Teaching Methodology : The Silent Way

Education English | The Silent Way | Silent Way, according to Danny D Steinberg and friends, the rationale of Silent Way ; “ Student speaks, teacher silent” , develop by Gattegno (1972, 1976), is based on radical notion that the teacher is to be silent as possible while the students employ their own abilities to discover and create the language themselves. The underlying approach to this method is said to be based on the ‘creative’ aspect of language learning, where learning is viewed as a process of discovery or creation on the part of the student. Having the teacher silent is especially peculiar since learning from a model, be it spoken or written, is essential to every other method. ( Steinberg, Nagata, and Aline, 2001)
Based on Bambang Setiyadi, Silent Way is the name of method of language teaching devised by Caleb Gattegno. The method represents his previous experience in the used of rods and his series of word chard, in the field. The name of the method often makes people curious; they wonder how people can learn
foreign language in a “silence”.

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