Pronunciation is an important aspect of this approach and is focussed on in class when needed using colour-coded charts. Meaningful contexts are important and gestures too. Caleb Gattegno first described the approach 1962 and continued to write about it

Pronunciation is an important aspect of this approach and is focussed on in class when needed using colour-coded charts. Meaningful contexts are important and gestures too. Caleb Gattegno first described the approach 1962 and continued to write about it until he died in 1988. Important principles are that the teacher should concentrate on how students learn before they consider how to teach, imitation and drills are not as effective as other methods and learning involves experimentation.
\nLearners do 90% or more of the talking and the teacher intervenes only when they have to. When they do speak, the teacher only says something once. The students are encouraged to correct and help each other. The belief is that the classroom should be a place of cooperation not competition.