The Silent Way

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.

SW dirintis Caleb Gattegno pada tahun 1954. Menurut Gattegno, penguasaan bahasa tidak bisa dilakukan dengan tiruan tubian saja. Hal pertama yang harus ditumbuhkan pada pelajar adalah kesadaran akan adanya "kekuatan dalam" untuk mempelajari bahasa baru.

This action research looks into the usefulness of different strategies to enhance communication in the English language classroom in Uruguayan Middle School State classrooms. By reviewing the theoretical background of ELT methodology before the advent of the CLT emergence, the study puts into practice traditional and current strategies to foster communication in the classrooms. This research is based not only on the contributions from several published theories but also on the learnings gained from interviewing different college methodology professors and national language teaching authorities. Results show that using these strategies can increase language interaction (both prompted and spontaneous) by more than 200% reaching even 400% by the end of the study.