The Silent Way

 The Silent Way is one of my favorites because it is simple and as it says, it does not require the teacher to be a participant in the activity. 

It was founded in 1970 by the Egyptian educator and mathematician Caleb Gattegno. 

Some techniques are: 

Sound-color chart: it contains blocks of colors and then the teacher or student points out in order to form syllables, words, and sentences. 

This method has the main principle of giving support to the student when needed, errors are important for learning, student attention to the teacher is important, transferring students´ ideas, and progress is more important than perfection, etc.

The activity we developed was using rods, where we built sentences according to the color of the rod and the part of the speech. In the second class, we developed a similar activity with rods, although this time we created a story with them.

Audiolingual Method

 The audiolingual method is more time student-centered in most activities. From here and now the teaching methods were modifying the approach to students. The audio-lingual practice is used along with visual support reinforcing a stimulus on repeating. 

It is also known as the Army Method, why? It has its origins in World War II based on behavioral psychology where listening and speaking go before writing and reading. Its mission is to repeat after one person.

One of the activities we did was to read and repeat out loud after the teacher or 2 students into a conversation. It may be boys and girls or just a two-split group. 

Some techniques are: 

The main 4 practiced were repetition drill, substitution drill, Q&A drill, and transformation drill.

It was a very fun practice topic, but I bet you will like more the coming ones. I will tell you why in the next Entry.

Direct Method

After GTM, we have learned the Direct Method which is focused on listening and speaking, meaning, it develops the use of the second or target language. 

some of the characteristics are: 

- The use of correct pronunciation

- Reading texts

- Student-centered

- Sent in simple discourse 

In class, we had some activities to develop the Direct Method such as having a conversation with a classmate because it is natural in us as humans.

 

Grammar Translation method

 One of the first methods seen is the Grammar Translation Method, what is it about? let´s see

This method was born in the 1800s having Latin-Greek / Greek-Latin as the original languages translated. It was translated in some areas as: 

 

ART

                                      

                                               

                                                                   POETRY

          MUSIC

                                       BIBLE/LITERATURE

In class one of the activities carried out was to write a piece of each of the above examples, then translate the same texts.

so this method focuses more on writing and reading where speaking is dismissed as part of the activities.

Introducing my Blog

Hi there! this is Fernando. I am a fifth-year student of Translation and Interpretation at Universidad Evangelica de El Salvador. In this blog, I present the methods of English Didactics seen throughout this semester. 

I am fascinated with listening to podcasts lately, I like reading books that feed my professional self

and I am looking to build my own English Academy in the coming future.