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Silent Way Method by Rosariani

The Silent Way is a foreign language teaching method developed by Calab Cattengo in the 1960s, emphasizing minimal teacher speech and the use of physical objects like colored rods to facilitate learning. It promotes learner independence and problem-solving while allowing students to correct their own errors without direct teacher intervention. The method has advantages such as fostering student interaction and vocabulary improvement, but also faces challenges like potential misunderstandings due to limited teacher explanations.

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Silent Way Method by Rosariani

The Silent Way is a foreign language teaching method developed by Calab Cattengo in the 1960s, emphasizing minimal teacher speech and the use of physical objects like colored rods to facilitate learning. It promotes learner independence and problem-solving while allowing students to correct their own errors without direct teacher intervention. The method has advantages such as fostering student interaction and vocabulary improvement, but also faces challenges like potential misunderstandings due to limited teacher explanations.

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Filomena Rosariani
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Silent Way

Method

Filomena Rosariani Surya


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Definition

 SW: is a method of teaching
foreign language in which the
teacher doesn’t speak much, but
uses movements, pictures, and
wooden rods to explain meaning.
History

 SW is the method was
created by Calab
Cattengo in 1960s.
 This method focused on
the learners production
of utterances by their
own, with the teacher
silence. And well known
for the use of colored
sticks called ‘Cuisenaire
Basic Features

 Emphasize for students to work as
independent language learning.
 Learning is facilitated by accompanying
physical objects. (colorful charts and roods
which are of varying length they are used to
introduce vocabulary).
Basic Features

 Learning is facilitated by problem solving
involving the material to be learned.
This can be summarized by Benjamin
Franklin’s words:

Tell me and I forget


Teach me and I remember
Involve me and I learn
Basic Features

 Errors are important, teacher does not directly
correct the errors. His/her is responsible to
correct their mistakes.
 Teacher understands whether the students
have learned or not through their actions.
 Speaking is first, but reading and writing are
treated as equal important skills.
 Translation is not allowed and meaning is
discovered through meaningful practice
Type of objects

 To use this method, some types of materials are
required:
 A Sound/Color Wall Chart: each color presents one
phoneme.
Type of objects

 Word Wall Chart: words are introduced in the
same color code as the sound/color wall chart
suggests.
Type of objects

 Spelling/ the Fidel Chart: these chart use the
same color code as the sound/color wall chart,
show how each phoneme is spelled in English.
Type of objects

 Cuisenaire rods: these colored wooden rods
allow students to practice grammar and create
words using phonemes.
Type of objects

 A Pointer: teacher uses this to attract students,
attention to the sounds, the stressed syllables,
and proper pronunciation of words in the target
language.
Movements

Stop

Repeat

One word for


each finger

Speak louder
Teacher’s role

 Teacher is technician or an engineer who
facilitates learning.
 The teacher is silent most of the time.
 The teacher uses gestures, charts, to give the
students the material easily.
Learner’s role

 Learners are expected to develop
independence, autonomy and responsibility.

Autonomous
• learners must learners • Learners know
depend on their that they have
own idea and • Learners choose free will to
realize that thy proper choose among
can use the expressions in a any set of
knowledge of their given set of linguistic
own language. circumstances and choices.
Independence situations. Responsible
learners learners
Advantages

 Its learner’s center.
 Students interact not only with teacher but
also the each other.
 Students correct their errors by themselves.
 Teacher silence in SW passes the opportunity
to the learner to participate.
 Students can improve their vocabulary from
their speaking.
 Students become independent.
Disadvantages

 Students don’t understand the material
because the teacher is less explain.
 No repetition and no answers by the teacher,
it will be meaningless.
 SW cannot be used in the large group of
student.
 The students cannot easer to catch the
materials, because the teacher command the
material so fast.
CONCLUSION

In the Silent Way students are seen as bringing a vast
amount of knowledge with them in the classroom, i.e.
their first language. The teacher capitalizes on this
knowledge when introducing new material, always
building from the known to unknown. The students
begin their study of the language by studying its
sound system. The sounds are associated to different
colours using a sound-colour chart. These later to
sound- colour associations are later used to help
students with spelling, reading, writing and
pronunciation.

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