The Silent Way

This method is an alternative for foreign language teaching that provides competence in oral and written speech, and where the students are the principal actors of their learning processes. The role of the teacher is to be as silent as possible during a class as facilitator or stimulator, with the aim of allows increasing speaking ability in the foreign language in his students. To can develop this method exist three basic principals: first the learner needs to discover or create, second learning is made easier by the use of physical objects, and third learning is made easier by problem-solving using the target language.
Language learning is usually seen as a problem solving activity to be engaged in by the students both independently and as a group, in this method the teacher needs to stay out of the way in the process as much as possible.