Fluency Through Tpr Storytelling: Achieving Real Language Acquisition in School

Berkeley, CA: Command Performance Language Institute, 1998. 2nd ed. Small quarto in black and green illus glossy wraps; xvii, 220 pages; 23 cm; bibliographical references (pages 215-220). As new. Paperback. ISBN: 9780929724218

"Even now, in the late 1990s, foreign and second language programs in schools in North America and most of the world produce very few students who can fluently speak and comprehend spoken language or read and write competently. Nearly all high school, middle school and elementary school TPR Storytelling students can actually do these things. In the first five or six weeks, students gain a comprehension vocabulary of 150 words through Total Physical Response.Then, while they continue to expand their vocabulary, they begin to work on storytelling and, within two or three months, they are able to express themselves with fluency appropriate to their level. Fluency Through TPR Storytelling shows how this happens, describing in detail what students and teachers do at every level."--Back cover Contents: The keys to fluency in the language classroom -- Techniques, testing and checking comprehension -- In the beginning -- Storytelling in the first year -- Teaching a first-year mini-story -- How to maintain high interest and an optimal pace -- The five-day lesson plan -- Teaching grammar -- The second year -- The third and fourth years -- Student rapport -- Adapting a textbook for TPRS -- Questions frequently asked about TPR storytelling -- Advantages of TPR storytelling. / Language and languages -- Study and teaching. TPR storytelling. Langage et langues -- Étude et enseignement. Language and languages -- Study and teaching. Lernspiel Spracherwerb