Teaching language method

2.  Language Teaching Method
 Developed by Caleb Gattegno in
1963
Premise: minimize TTT and
maximize STT

3. Based on the hypotheses that learning is
facilitated :
 if the learner discovers or creates rather than
remembers or repeats
 by mediating physical objects
 by problem solving

4. “ Tell me and I
forget, teach me
and I remember,
involve me and I
learn”
Benjamin
Franklin

5.  Structural position: focus on grammatical
and lexical vocabulary and sounds production.
Focus on propositional meaning rather than
communicative value.
 Hypothetical mode (in contrast with
expository mode): teacher and student in
cooperative position. Students have an active
role.

6. AIMS
 Give beginning level students oral and aural
facility in basic elements of the target language.
 Provide the learner with the basic practical
knowleadge of the grammar of the language.
 Teach HOW to learn a language.

7. OBJECTIVES
 Students are expected to become
independent, autonomous and responsible.
 Students develop self-exploration and inner
criteria by discovering their own mistakes.
 Students are expected to acquire near-native
fluency in the target language, and correct
pronunciation and mastery of the prosodic
elements.

9. 1.The teacher models a
word, phrase, or sentence
and then elicits learner
responses, using the aid of
charts and rods.
2.Learners go on to create
their own utterances by
putting together old and
new information.
( Teacher modeling is
minimal, although
much of the activity
may be teacher
directed)

11. • A set of
coloured rods
• Colour-coded
pronunciation
and vocabulary
charts
• A pointer
• Reading/
writing
exercises

13. Silence is used as a teaching technique
“Silence is considered the best vehicle for
learning, because in silence students
concentrate on the task to be
accomplished and the potential means to
its accomplishments”