About The Silent Way

The Silent Way is an approach to teaching world languages that maximizes opportunities for students to think and speak in the 'new' language by minimizing how much the teacher speaks. Some of the tools include color-coded word charts that allow students to see how words are pronounced without the sound being modeled, and colored rods that can be used to build situations for discussion.

Videos

Language Teaching Methods explores various methodologies of English language teaching. This was a joint project by Diane Larsen-Freeman and the U.S. Information Agency and was produced in 1990. This video demonstrates the Silent Way with Donald Freeman.

A short bit from a Silent Way ESL class taught in Tokyo May 2009