TPRS for Teaching Foreign Languages


Why I feel this Total Physical Response Storytelling is the best way to teach a foreign language.

Students show a greater interest in it.
Teachers have fun.
It really gets through to the students because all of the eight intelligences are used.
All of Blooms Taxonomy is used so higher level of thinking is used also.
Students remember better because of the gestures that they learn with the words and the practice with them.
You learn it the same way that you learn your first language so it doesn't require your brain to do extraneous work.
The stories are weird so the students remember them better.
The new vocabulary is repeated on average of 70 times per class setting therefore increasing understanding and memorization.
Fluency is created from the beginning.
There isn't a lot of pressure with grammar because they learn it through hearing it.
There is a lot of oral language spoken by the students which increases fluency and is normally a downfall for many students.
Teachers get to make their own way of having students read and write.
You can get support from other teachers who are doing it.
By the second year it doesn't take much planning.
No need to give out homework, which student's like.
It is gaining more followers because of it's success.
It works!!!!!!


Everyone wins!!!!



 
 
 
 

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