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Author of the Silent Way is Caleb Gattegno. This method is based on the premise that the teacher should be
silent as much as possible in the classroom but the learner should be encouraged to produce as much language
as possible.
1.) It is also believed that learning is facilitated if the learner discovers or creates rather than remembers and
repeats what is to be learned: the Silent Way belongs to the tradition that views learning as problem-solving,
creative activity discovery learning. Learners have to make use of what they know (previous knowledge),
they have to actively participate in the learning process and they have to give full attention to the task.
Learning is a personal responsibility of the learner. Teaching should be subordinated to learning.
2.) Learning is facilitated by accompanying (meditating) physical objects such as pronunciation charts and
rods provide physical foci for student learning and also create memorable images to facilitate student recall
3.) Learning is facilitated by problem solving involving the material to be learned
7. LEARNER ROLES IN SUGGESTOPEDIA?
Learners roles are carefully prescribed. Their mental state is critical to success.
Learners must maintain a pseudo passive state in which the material rolls over and through them; they
shouldnt try to study or manipulate the material.
They are also expected to tolerate and in fact encourage their own infantilization
They are expected to acknowledge the absolute authority of the teacher.
8. TBLT ASSUMPTIONS?
Several assumptions about the nature of language underlie current approaches to TBLT:
1.) Language is primarily a means of making meaning.
2.) Multiple models of language inform TBI (structural, functional, interactional)
3.) Lexical units - central in language use and language learning
4.) Conversation central focus of language and the keystone of language acquisition Speaking and trying
to communicate with others through the spoken language drawing on the learners available linguistic and
communicative resources is considered the basis for second language acquisition in TBLT; the majority of
tasks within TBLT involve conversation.
9. TPR LEARNING HYPOTHESES?
1.) First and second language learning are parallel processes.
- children develop listening competence before they develop the ability to speak
- children are required to respond physically to spoken language in the form of parental commands this
develops their listening comprehension. Once a foundation in listening comprehension has been established,
speech evolves naturally and effortlessly out of it (parallel to the processes of first language learning, the
foreign language learner should first internalize a cognitive map of the target language through listening
exercises; listening should be accompanied by physical movement; speech and other productive skills should
come later)
2.) Child language learner acquires language through the motor movement - a right hemisphere activity.
- When a sufficient amount of right-hemisphere learning has taken place, the left hemisphere will be triggered
to produce language and to initiate other, more abstract language processes. (child language learner acquires
language through motor movement a right hemisphere activity; right-hemisphere activities must occur
before the left hemisphere can process language for production; similarly, the adult should proceed to
language mastery through right-hemisphere motor activities, while the left hemisphere watches and learns;
when a sufficient amount of right-hemisphere learning has taken place, the left hemisphere will be triggered to
produce language and to initiate other, more abstract language processes)
3.) The absence of stress is an important condition for successful language learning.
The key to stress free learning: to recapture the relaxed and pleasurable experiences that accompany first
language learning.