Middle XX century. 1950-1960 (1 gen 1950 anni – 1 gen 1960 anni)

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During this time other methods were used like The Silent way and it emphasizes learner autonomy and active student participation. Silence is used as a tool to achieve this goal; the teacher uses a mixture of silence and gestures to focus students' attention, to elicit responses from them, and to encourage them to correct their own errors.

Another method was The Natural approach and it aims to foster naturalistic language acquisition in a classroom setting, and to this end it emphasises communication, and places decreased importance on conscious grammar study and explicit correction of student errors.

And finally, The Total physical response that it talks by itself.