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LECTURE SEVEN (IV)

TEACHING STRATEGIES

AND CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES

By Alec

 (2) Silent Way

Or silent method, is an approach to language teaching developed in the United States, principally by Caleb Gattegno. The silent way makes use of rods which are small, wooden blocks of ten different lengths but identical cross section, each length having its own, distinctive color. In addition, the method makes use of a fully developed set of materials containing a word chart, a plastic chart in which phonemic distinctions appear as contrasting colors, drawings, wordsheets, and several books. With regard to the linguistic units themselves, the basic strategy of the silent way agrees with many other methods developed over the last thirty years, by concentrating first on the acquisition , within a small vocabulary, of control over pronunciation and structure.