This book is for anyone aspiring to teach a foreign language following
Caleb Gattegno's approach called The Silent Way. While Gattegno and
others have written several excellent books describing the principles
underlying the approach, there is nothing quite so helpful to new
teachers as a visit to a classroom where someone is actually using the
Silent Way.
This book is an attempt to meet that need. It invites the reader to
peek
over the shoulders of two experienced Silent Way teachers as they work
day by day with complete beginners in English and Spanish.
As Caleb Gattegno says in the Foreword to Discovering the Silent Way,
"Here we have two practitioners, exposing themselves candidly to their
readers and telling of their trepidations and
mistakes, sure that these have been as much of value in their evolution
as teachers as they could be to their readers and who feel at the same
time that they have
exciting stories to tell."
Do
you have a story to tell? Would you like to make a donation to help us
continue our research? Would you like a printable, high-resolution
version of this PDF? Just write to ranchopint AT hotmail.com.
The following video offers a short sample of Spanish the Silent Way,
with English subtitles...
Colored rods for language teaching
"Take a yellow rod, a blue one and two red
ones."
"On the end" versus "At the end"
from Discovering the Silent Way
by John and Susana Pint
The Construction Game: "Tell him how to build this."
Silent Way English chart one: Color coding
indicates pronunciation. Image courtesy of Educational Solutions
Worldwide.
Telling the story of a cat, a mouse and a house.
Ponla aquí! Put it here!
from Discovering the Silent Way
by John Pint and Susana Pint
