methodology..The Silent Way

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The Silent Way

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1) There is many reasons for the teacher's silence in the Silent Way. Some of these have been stated explicitly in this chapter; others have been implied. Can you state the reasons?

With this method we can analyze that the teacher looks with signs and gestures towards the blackboard with different contents and pointing to each one of them we can distinguish and identify the subject and teaching that he wants us to learn and it does not hurt to say that he gets the result when the students manage to give the answer to their classmates.



2) What does the phrase, 'Teaching is subordinated to learning,' mean?

When something is taught anything that is automatically activates the learning of what was said above all in new words that leads us to investigate to know its meaning.



3) One of the mottos of the Silent Way is 'The teacher works with the students; the students work on the language.' What do you think this means?

he teacher is already prepared and only transmits the knowledge obtained to his students, therefore the students receive the knowledge using the tools they get to learn, know and identify each day more with the language, for which I think that every method I teach is valid in learning.




B Apply what you have understood about the Silent Way.

In  a silent way and only with signs and gestures using the blackboard placing teaching material to encourage students to throw coconut to the activities on the board.




1) Teach some students a short target language verse which contains some unfamiliar sounds. What nonverbal gestures or cues can you develop to guide your students to produce the correct sounds, intonation, and rhythm as they learn the verse?





Verse:
Love is the virtue that emanates from the feeling
It is a divine complement in all its fullness
It's sweet it's turbulent, sweet backwater a wing
It is the eternal youth and the infinite regret
In one is loyalty in another is lattice
And at the most a great pain
Everyone feels this science according to the conscience
But love is always love.



2) Choose a grammar structure. It is probably better at first to choose something elementary like the demonstrative adjectives ('this,' 'that,' 'these,' 'those' in English) or the possessive adjectives ('my,' 'your,' 'his,' 'her,' 'its,' 'our,' 'their' in English). Plan a lesson co teach the structures where:

a) You will remain as silent and interfere as little as possible.
b) The meaning will be clear to the students.
c)They will receive a good deal of practice without repetition.


My dress is beautiful
The song our song
His eyes were blue as crimson
They ate their dinner
The cat threw his ball





3) Think of students with a particular native language background. How will you sequence the sounds of the target language in order to teach them to these students, building on what they already know?

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