the active search for rules ascribed to the learner in the Cognitive Code Approach.
Gattegno looked at language learning from the perspective of the learner by studying
the way babies and young children learn. He concluded that learning is a process
which we initiate by ourselves by mobilizing our inner resources (our perception,
awareness, cognition, imagination, intuition, creativity, etc.) to meet the challenge at
hand. In the course of our learning, we integrate into ourselves whatever ‘new’ that
we create, and use it as a stepping stone for further learning.
In order to explore the Silent Way, we will observe the first day of an English class
in Brazil. There are 24 secondary school students in this class. The class meets for
two hours a day, three days a week.