Teaching the concept of necessity

learner struggling to solve problems about the language and get a grasp of its mechanism.
Disadvantages
 The Silent Way is often criticized of being a harsh method. The learner works in
isolation and communication is lacking badly in a Silent Way classroom.
 With minimum help on the part of the teacher, the Silent Way method may put the
learning itself at stake.
 The material ( the rods and the charts) used in this method will certainly fail to
introduce all aspects of language. Other materials will have to be introduced.
Advantages
 Learning through problem solving looks attractive especially because it fosters:
 creativity,
 discovery,
 increase in intelligent potency and
 long term memory.
 The indirect role of the teacher highlights the importance and the centrality of the
learner who is responsible in figuring out and testing the hypotheses about how language works.
In other words teaching is subordinated to learning.

5.1.5 The Natural Approach

According to Krashen, The Natural Approach was developed by Tracy Terrell at the
University of California at Irvine for foreign language instruction at the university and high
school levels. While originally developed independently of "Monitor Theory", its later
development and articulation have been influenced by the second language acquisition theory.
The teacher speaks only the target language in the classroom. (Krashen, 1982)
Krashen and Terrell view communication as the primary function of language, and
adhere to a communicative approach to language teaching, focusing on teaching communicative
abilities rather than sterile language structures.
What really distinguishes the Natural approach from other methods and approaches are
its premises concerning the use of language and the importance of vocabulary:
 Language is viewed as a vehicle for communicating meaning and messages.
 Vocabulary is of paramount importance as language is essentially its lexicon!
This means that language acquisition cannot take place unless the acquirer understands
messages in the target language and has developed sufficient vocabulary inventory. In fact it
should be easier to reconstruct a message containing just vocabulary items than one containing