Language Teaching Methods: Silent Way

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  @Nssto1990 · 12 years ago

  I'm a student learning about English teaching methods and approaches. While this is certainly NOT the way to teach at ALL times, it is an excellent method to use occasionally to ensure we do not only feed language to our students, but also help them "farm" their own understanding of it. There is no perfect method to teach language; instead, we must consider all the different methods and techniques, ways to combine them, and adding our own touch to accommodate our needs.

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• JP

  @JP503 · 5 years ago

  It would be interesting to see how this method would work with true beginners of English...

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• JA

  @jakelraylor · 4 years ago

  This video sounds like the introduction to a dark murder documentary. Very stern, no music, just cold information, but I like it...

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• TO

  @tougenokaibutsu · 13 years ago

  One advantage I do see is that you will develop a more efficient self-monitor. You're not focusing so much on the grammar and the translation into your own language, so therefor when students start to develop part fluency from this method, when it comes to self correcting they wont have to think of the language in their own language but rather their understanding of what the word means (less process time in the mind when figuring out how to say things).

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• ST

  @stevexiengmieng · 4 years ago

  An ESL adult education teacher taught the Silent Way to very beginning SEAsian students in the 1980's.  There were so many complaints from the students that the teacher was reprimanded by the boss.  The students were so frustrated with this.

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• OB

  @obrico1 · 1 month ago

  I remember learning English with this method

• WI

  @wilaustu · 9 years ago

  This method is difficult to demonstrate with a class that doesn't regularly learn this way and was kind of thrown into it. It's a very tedious approach that requires that all the students learn how the flow of the lesson goes, and that they buy into the process. These students probably have very little context for this lesson, which makes it a bad fit for them.

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• RA

  @ratihpratiwi6840 · 6 years ago

  Based on the films that I have watched, that the teaching method using the silent way is a teaching method in which the learning process between the teacher and students uses silence techniques. If in the school environment when learning English usually the teacher uses a method unknown to students by using fingers, colored writing, and drawing plans in making a correct sentence into English from one word to become many words that can form a good sentences and correct. This method is usually done by the teacher to students, especially in learning so that students can think critically and can also understand what the teacher is conveying through a gesture / gesture in making a sentence of a new word.

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• LA

  @lavagnino7 · 6 years ago

  I love to see all the effort SS put to learn...It is so beautiful to see them repeating, correcting, focusing on what T says. I love teaching adults!

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• GA

  @gawni1612 · 9 years ago

  These videos are a great supplement to my online tefl course. Thank you.

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• EL

  @elibertomartinez7573 · 9 years ago

  To me, this method doesn't work much. I prefer the communicative method where people can interact from the very beginning and practice the language. By the way, mother tongue is not prohibited but it's use should be limited.

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• NA

  @narayan1916 · 6 years ago

  teaching and learning in tune with the objective analogy.... leaves questions over educating with non-concrete ideas and information

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