Abstract
The applicability of the Silent Way (hereafter SW) to contemporary Japanese-pedagogy has not been well recognized; however, the modern aspect of the SW, which the teacher devotes full attention to the students to facilitate their learning process, might be quite useful to promote the new educational paradigm of the 21st century. In this paper, I describe the variations of SW that effectively introduce the Japanese syllabary. Also, I suggest that the freedom of exploration allowed in the SW seems to contribute to increasing motivation for learning, although it is hard to examine SW based on the traditional approach for research.
