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TPR Storytelling ( Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling or TPRS ) is a method of teaching foreign languages . TPRS lessons use a mixture of reading and storytelling to help students learn a foreign language in a classroom setting. The method works in three steps: in step one the new vocabulary structures to be learned are taught using a combination of translation , gestures , and personalized questions ; in step two those structures are used in a spoken class story; and finally, in step three, these same structures are used in a class reading. Throughout these three steps, the teacher will use a number of techniques to help make the target language comprehensible to the students , including careful limiting of vocabulary, constant asking of easy comprehension questions, frequent comprehension checks, and very short grammar explanations known as "pop-up grammar".
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Susan is an educational consultant and workshop presenter. She has been invited to consult throughout the US and internationally. She is passionate about teaching, particularly foreign language instruction. read more “The influence of Susan Gross on the current massive change in foreign language education in the US cannot be overstated. For over fifteen years, Susan has been, in my opinion, the most effective voice in the world in describing the changes away from the old grammar / translation methods of the past century to the new proficiency methods of this century.
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A Psycholinguistic Teaching Approach This approach is inspired by Stephen Krashen's Natural Approach and acquisition theory and is applicable ideally to small groups and private tutoring in non English speaking countries. We have been using it with a great rate of success at our ESL school in Brazil. We do not follow any specific plan or course of lessons and books, but promote language and culture exchange in communicative activities.
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Stephen Krashen's Theory of Second Language Acquisition (Assimilação Natural - o Construtivismo no Ensino de Línguas)
"Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require tedious drill." Stephen Krashen "Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language - natural communication - in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding." Stephen Krashen "The best methods are therefore those that supply 'comprehensible input' in low anxiety situations, containing messages that students really want to hear.
There are so many ways to learn languages and yet a lot of people seem to be confused in pinpointing which method is definitely the best. Of the numerous methods of language learning known to man, there are some which are effective for some yet not effective for others. Studies have shown that children learn languages faster and more effectively than adults yet there are other studies that show that it is not the age difference but the method which makes children effective language learners.
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(Photo opposite: Antonio Graceffo) “The way we found out that our mother had diabetes was that ants would appear every time she peed.” The teachers had been standing at the front of the room talking about bodily functions and toilet humor for nearly an hour. The next story was a Thai legend about a half woman and half snake spirit monster, which fed on human waste. I would have been appalled, except that it was all in Thai, and yet, after only a few weeks of study, I understood what they were saying. Maybe it would have been better if I didn’t understand.
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Abroad Languages Blog » Blog Archive » What Is Automatic Language Growth?
We have already introduced Automatic Language Growth or ALG in our article How to Learn Languages Like Children and we believe, through the reactions and comments we have received from the public that we have only skimmed the surface about the program. What is ALG? ALG or Automatic Language Growth was developed by Dr. J, Marvin Brown, an American linguist who based his theory on a much earlier theory called the Silent Way which was later called the Natural Way. The common ground between Dr.