The learner needs to discover or create .

Areas of target language where Cuisenaire rods can be useful include word boundaries, contracted forms, prepositions, word order and word stress.

Teaching is facilitated by problem solving involving the material to be learned.

Students are encouraged to help another student when he or she is experiencing a difficulty .

The sound - color chart contains blocks of color , each one representing a sound in the native language .

The teacher may put his palms together and then moved them outwards to signal to students the need to lengthen a particular vowel they were working on .

Languages of the world share a number of features .

Teachers find ways to limit the students' feelings .

Emphasis is on syntax .

The goal of the teacher is to enable students to use the target language for self - expression .

The syllabus is developed according to the teacher's view.

The role of the student is to develop independence .

The students self- correct themselves .

Culture is separable from the language .

Students gain autonomy in the language .

Native language is not used at all .

Students begin their study of the language through its basic building blocks ; its sound .