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Advantages Of The Silent Way Method

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Choose two or three methods of language teaching and compare/discuss the advantages and/or the drawbacks of each.
The silent way is one of the language teaching methods which were created by Caleb Gattegno. He introduced this method in 1903 in his book which is called ‘Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools: the silent way”. In this method, the teacher doesn’t use many words but he only uses as little much as possible in order to give the learner or the student the responsibility to say what he wants. One of the basic principles of the silent way is that learning is more important than teaching. ‘Teaching shouldn’t be subordinated to learning”.
Since we said that the teacher doesn’t talk too much which means the student becomes independent as he is responsible to express his/her thoughts, desires and feelings. So, one of the goals of the teacher is to encourage the students to be independent. The teacher will not criticize or correct, but the students will keep on correcting themselves until they reach success. The general role of the silent way is to help students to gain the fluency in the target language.
Both teachers and students have an important role in the silent way method. Concerning the role of the teacher, He/she depends on what students know or about their backgrounds and helps them if they need and provide them with exercises to facilitate their lessons. The teacher emphasizes the participation of students, that 's why the teacher uses silence as a tool to
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