Session 13
March 27

Today we have The Silent Way microteaching. It is a fascinating method, because the learner discovers and creates rather than remembers and repeats what is to be learned. Diana and Lina did a great job, they were loyal to this method and their materials were totally based on it (the colored rods, the pointer, the Fidel Chart).

"The general objective of the Silent Way is to give beginning-level students oral and aural facility in basic elements of the target language." (Gattegno 1972) and they did very well. They adopted a structural syllabus as the method requires and planned around grammatical items and related vocabulary.

The only thing that we got to say about this microteaching is that the learners were not monitoring their peers nor self-correcting their own production. It is not their fault, but still... it's worthy to mention, since it is in the activity of self-correction through self-awareness that the Silent Way
claims to differ most notably from other ways of language learning. (Richard & Rogers 2001)