Учебно-методический комплекс по дисциплине «М етодика преподавания английского языка» специальности 050303 «Иностранный язык»

8 Theme: Innovative language teaching:
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Silent way
Aims and goals
The general goal o f the Silent Way is to help beginning-level students gain basic fluency in 
the target language, with the ultim ate aim being near-native language proficiency and good 
pronunciation. An im portant part o f this ability is being able to use the language for self- 
expression; students should be able to express their thoughts, feelings, and needs in the target 
language. In order to help them achieve this, teachers emphasize self-reliance. Students are 
encouraged to actively explore the language, and to develop their own ’inner criteria' as to what 
is linguistically acceptable.
The role o f the teacher is that o f 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. As Gattegno says, "The teacher works with the student; the student works on the 
language." For exam ple, teachers will often give students time to correct their own mistakes 
before giving them the answ er to a question. Teachers also avoid praise or criticism, as it can 
discourage students from developing self-reliance.
9 Theme: Innovative language teaching:
Com m unity language learning
Natural approachfedit]
The foreign language learner's tasks, according to CLL are (1) to apprehend the sound system o f 
the language (2) assign fundam ental meanings to individual lexical units and (3) construct a 
basic grammar.
In these three steps, the CLL resembles the natural approach to language teaching in which a 
learner is not expected to speak until he has achieved some basic level o f comprehension.1^
There are 5 stages o f developm ent in this method.
1. “Birth” stage: feeling o f security and belonging are established.
2. As the learners' ability improve, they achieve a measure o f independence from the parent.
3. Learners can speak independently.
4. The learners are secure enough to take criticism and being corrected.
5. The child becomes an adult and becomes the know-er.