Essay from the year 2008 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, Bielefeld University, language: English, abstract: This paper first of all compares the teaching method “The Silent Way” to the approach “Cooperative Language Learning”, both mentioned in the book “Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching”, written by Jack C. Richards and Theodore S. Rodgers. Some points of critique of both, the “Silent Way” as well as “Cooperative Language Learning” in a second part will lead to a conclusion in the end.