Fluency Through TPR Storytelling

Fluency Through TPR Storytelling

Author: Blaine Ray

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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This work discusses the success some teachers have had with TPR (Total Physical Response) storytelling in helping their students achieve fluency in a foreign language.


Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS)

Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS)

Author: Karen Lichtman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-12

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1351802402

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This module introduces Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS), an input-based language teaching method. TPRS provides a framework for teaching classes completely in the target language—even those at the beginner level. Through the steps of establishing meaning, creating a story that is acted out live in class, and reading, students understand and use the target language to communicate right away. Research shows that over time TPRS creates fluent speakers who excel both on traditional tests and—more importantly—in real-life situations. This is a valuable resource on TPRS for world language teachers, language teacher educators, and second language researchers.


Second Language Learning and Language Teaching

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching

Author: Vivian Cook

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1134683227

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Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the application of second language acquisition research to language teaching. Assuming no previous background in second language acquisition or language teaching methods, this text starts by introducing readers to the basic issues of second language acquisition research. It then examines how people learn particular aspects of the second language, such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and the writing system, and at the strategies they adopt in their learning and the differences between individuals. Final chapters look at second language learning in a broader context – the goals of language teaching and how teaching methods relate to SLA research. This newly updated fifth edition builds on the comprehensive scope of earlier editions while also addressing more recent developments in the field, particularly multilingual approaches to language teaching.


TPRS with Chinese Characteristics

TPRS with Chinese Characteristics

Author: Terry Waltz

Publisher:

Published: 2015-05-27

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780692442906

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Have you read or heard about TPRS, but don't quite know where to begin? A little hesitant about teaching a "hard" language like Chinese using Comprehensible Input? TPRS with Chinese Characteristics summarizes fifteen years of teaching Chinese using TPRS/CI. Focused on classroom practice, the book presents tested, effective strategies and skills that will allow you to leave the myth of Chinese as a "difficult" language far behind your students. From tones, Pinyin, and reading instruction to writing prompts and output, TPRS with Chinese Characteristics fills in the gap between "traditional" Spanish- and French-focused TPRS training and the special challenges faced by students of Chinese.


Look, I Can Talk!

Look, I Can Talk!

Author: Blaine Ray

Publisher: Sky Oaks Productions, Incorporated

Published: 1990-11-01

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781560184560

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Step-by-step, Blaine Ray shows you how to tell a story with physical actions.Next, your students tell the story to each other in their own words using the target language. They then act it out, write it and read it. Each Student Book for Level 1 comes in your choice of English, Spanish, French or German and has 12 main stories 24 additional action-packed picture stories Many options for retelling each story Reading and writing exercises galore. Blaine personally guarantees that each of your students will eagerly tell stories in the target language by using the Student Book."


A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish

Author: Mark Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 1457

ISBN-13: 1134874537

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A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.


Grammar Fundamentals for Teaching English as a Foreign Language: A Teacher's Reference

Grammar Fundamentals for Teaching English as a Foreign Language: A Teacher's Reference

Author: International Tefl Academy Press

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780359255306

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Grammar Fundamentals for Teaching English as a Foreign Language: A Teacher's Reference aims to improve your knowledge of and confidence with the English language, including the terminology, form, and meaning of basic grammatical structures. The structures are presented within short vignettes about teaching abroad, including content that should be of interest for anyone in the field of TEFL. The book is designed to serve as a self-study grammar reference for the novice teacher of English grammar, but it can also serve as a review or to provide samples for more advanced grammarians.