CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

TEACHING METHODS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In The Silent Way, are teachers supposed to use realia?
A
Yes
B
No
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The role of the teacher is that of technician or engineer. The teacher’s task is to focus the students’ attention, and provide exercises to help them develop language facility; however, to ensure their self-reliance, the teacher should only help the students as much as is strictly necessary.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Silent Way represents Gattegno’s venture into the field of foreign language teaching. It is based on the premise that the teacher should be silent as much as possible in the classroom and the learner should be encouraged to produce as much language as possible.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -If a response is incorrect, the teacher will attempt to reshape the utterance or have another student present the correct model.

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