Learning process in The Silent Way:

1. The teacher’s role is key to learning process: the teacher role is to monitor student’s efforts. The teacher appears to be non-interfering but plays a very active role by helping students with gestures, encouraging peer correction and auto correction.

2. The students need to develop independence from the teacher to develop their own inner criteria for correctness hence, the teacher doesn’t try to dominate the learning process.

3. The teacher’s silence is used to enable students focus more in the class, respond more and help them to auto correct themselves.

4. Translations and repetitions are avoided by the teacher and it paves way to independent learning by the learner.

5. Self-expression - where students try to express …show more content…
(Wintiz 1981) Total Physical Response (TPR) is a language teaching method built around coordination of speech and action. Developed by James Asher, a professor of psychology at San Jose State University, California, it draws on several traditions, including developmental psychology, learning theory, and humanistic pedagogy, as well as on language teaching procedures proposed by Harold and Dorothy Palmer in 1925. Asher developed TPR as a result of his experiences observing young children learning their first language. He noticed that interactions between parents and children often took the form of speech from the parent followed by a physical response from the child. Asher made three hypotheses based on his observations: first, that language is learned primarily by listening; second, that language learning must engage the right hemisphere of the brain; and third, that learning language should not involve any stress. He believed in the key tenet of Comprehension Approach that comprehension abilities precede productive skills of learning a