CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The method emphasizes learner autonomy and active student participation. Silence is used as a tool to achieve this goal; the teacher uses a mixture of silence and gestures to focus students’ attention, to elicit responses from them, and to encourage them to correct their own errors.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Silent Way is the name of a method of language teaching devised by Caleb Gattegno. It 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Silent Way student is expected to become “independent, autonomous and responsible” (Gattegno 1976)-in other words, a good problem solver in language. Gattegno takes an openly sceptical view of the role of linguistic theory in language teaching methodology.

Detailed explanation-4: -The teacher shows the learners a small red Cuisenaire rod and a bigger blue one and says ‘The blue one is bigger than the red one’. The learners repeat this. The teacher then substitutes the rods to produce other models, and finally encourages the learners to produce their own comparisons.