Reaching the World through English language

The silent way is an approach to language teaching, developed in the States by Caleb Gattegno, involving a highly structured system of specialized techniques and apparatus. The teacher is encouraged to restrict his own speech to a minimum, in order that students become involved in establishing meaningful language behaviour themselves.

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The silent way method presented in class was focused on the idea that the teacher has to talk as minimun as possible. For that reason the team or the teachers chose an activity based on a role play about urban tribes, in which everybody had to speak and creat their own dialogue or script. Then one or more members of each team made a presentation about their topic. It was really great because the whole group had the oportunity to create and construct their own speech and show it to the others with little help from the teachers, just using their own knowledge and skills in the language.

Also, they asked us to make a sort of collage with pictures and key words about the different urban tribes presented in the class. After every group finished it, we had to present and explain our work to the others.