TPRS for Teaching Foreign Languages

Resources:
1.  WWW Online: Blaine Ray. Total Physical Response Storytelling [Online]. (2001). www.blaineraytprs.com

2. Blaine Ray, Contee Seely. Fluency through TPR Storytelling. Berkeley California:  Command Performance Language Institute, January 2000.

3.  Robert Headrick (Fall 2000).  TPR Storytelling-An Exciting Way to Engage All Students in Foreign Language Learning. EMC Paradigm ECHO.  Retreived from www.emcp.com/MiscFiles/Echofall2000.pdf

4.  Eileen W. Glisan (1986).  TPR:  A Technique for Teaching all Skills in Spanish.  Foreign Language Annals, 19, No 5, 419-427.

5.  WWW Online. Valeri Marsh. TPR Frequently Asked Questions. [Online] (2001) www.tprstorytelling.com/faq.htm

6.  WWW Online. Thomas Armstrong Ph.D. Blooms taxonomy and Eight intelligences. (16, Aug., 2001) www.msu.edu/~sandinkr/tprs.htm
 
   
FACTOIDS:
    On Blaine Ray's web site it says he started it in 1990, but on another web site it says that TPRS has been gaining attention for the last 30 years, pretty interesting.  There is also the Language Journal essay about it that was dated 1986.
    I observe a teacher that uses this technique and his classroom grades and comprehension has risen greatly.  He also told me that when he first started out it did take a lot of planning because there was such a lack of guidance but now with the computer communities of fellow teachers it really helps out.
    I think that it is a very effective way of teaching and the improvement I have seen in students interest and comprehension can not be mistaken.
    It is still relatively unknown by a lot of foreign language teachers.

   

 
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