Glenys Hanson
After an MA in Politics at Edinburgh University, she moved to France in 1972: first to Paris, then to Bordeaux and finally to Besançon.
She taught English as a foreign language, mainly to adults from 1974 to 2010. She encountered the Silent Way in 1976 and from 1981 to 2010 she worked with a team of 7 other Silent Way teachers at the Centre de linguistique appliquée at the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. At the CLA she also participated in running teacher-training courses - particularly for primary school teachers.
In 2000 she created a resource site for teachers and learners of English: English Online France which includes numerous interactive exercises inspired by the Silent Way.
Since 2004 she has run many distance learning courses for health professionals. Some of these courses, along with several others, can be seen on the UEPD virtual learning platform. On that platform there are also pedagogical discussion forums. For many years she has run workshops for UEPD mainly on the Silent Way (see some photos) but also on creating interactive exercises on line.
In 1999 she created this website for UEPD and continues to maintain and develop it.
On this site you can read several of her pedagogical articles:
Agnes and the Temporal Hierarchies
The English Verb Tense System: a dynamic presentation using the Cuisenaire Rods
Learning to read with Words in Color in an Inner City Neighborhood
Position and movement words and mental images
A Silent Way Lesson: forcing awarenesses about "ago"
Some Silent Way exercises for beginners using Cuisenaire rods
Spelling and Pronunciation Exercises: Classifying Vowel Sounds
What does 'Working on the Student' Mean? What four Silent Way teachers say to their students - Glenys Hanson et al
Words in Color in France 1996 - ed. Glenys Hanson & Roslyn Young