Silent Way

"This book explores the phenomenon of silence in schools, considering a wide range of its appearances and uses. Starting from a discussion of the negative and coercive aspects of silence in schools, the discussion moves quickly onto examples of how silence in school environments generates a positive influence in the education of children.

Silence is currently undervalued as a pedagogical tool. Nevertheless it is cost-free and educationally significant. The discussion in this book covers some of the ways in which silence is currently being used in schools through the introduction of meditation, quiet spaces and silent moments and how such uses are enhancing and affecting school experience. The explorations in the book also consider how awareness of silence can be developed to change school cultures, notably towards more democratic and reflective practices.

This book is of interest to head teachers, classroom teachers, policy makers, educational researchers and parents. The conclusions drawn offer useful international applications and can be impactful in many different types of educational setting.

Paper devoted for the analysis and summary of several methods and approaches for teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) based on a series of videos by Diane Lasen-Freeman. This paper was elaborated as a compulsary assignment for the subjetc "Fundamentación Didáctica del Inglés Lengua Extranjera," a subject of the ME "Master en Formación del Profesorado" at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, academic year 2015-2016.

Abstrak
Silent Way is a language teaching method invented by Caleb Gattegno. This method creates new things by remembering and repeating what is learned, learning by using physical objects, and solving problems that involve the material being taught. The main purpose of this method is to supplement spending with the ability to maintain targets verbally. In addition to supporting listening sensitivity, it is also expected to be achieved. With this silent way method students will be trained in listening skills where students will pay attention to what the teacher is saying well because if they do not pay attention to the teacher's words, the student allows it will be difficult to answer. The advantage of this method will be to train and improve students' language development, students can develop sentence forms and even paragraphs. The weakness of this method students must have a fairly broad vocabulary because the teacher does not give a full explanation.
Key word: Silent way method, listening skill

According to the approach, the students must take their responsibilities to be more active in the class. They must discover the rules of the target language by themselves. Mistakes is seen inevitable and it seen as usual process of the acquisition of the language. The studies of this method has both deductive and inductive ways of applying the grammatical rules.

Methodology upon language transition refers to a set of activities regarding what, how, and when language features are exposed to learners. These activities involve several matters: syllabus, approach, strategy, and method due to language learning.