Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools The Silent Way

This is another book by an outsider. Like Curran (1972 reviewed in Stevick 1973), Caleb Gattegno does language teaching as a by-product and special case of a professional commitment which is broader than language teaching as such. Again like Curran, Gattegno makes almost no mention of those who are conspicuous in the field; in turn, his own published works are cited only rarely in our books and journals. The first edition of this book received no serious reviews in the United States, and so far as I am aware, the second edition has thus far been entirely ignored.