Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS)

Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS)
Author: Karen Lichtman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351802402

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization
Author: Leanne Hinton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 681
Release: 2018-03-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317200853

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including: language rights, language and well-being, and language policy; language in educational institutions and in the home; new methodologies and venues for language learning; and the roles of documentation, literacies, and the internet. The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music, of whistled languages and sign languages, and how languages change when they are being revitalized. The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the ideal resource for graduate students and researchers working in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization and endangerment.

Comprehensible and Compelling

Comprehensible and Compelling
Author: Stephen D. Krashen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2017-11-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440857997

A joint effort from three thought leaders in educational research, linguistics, and literacy acquisition, this book explores the latest research that shows that compelling comprehensive input (CCI) is the baseline for all language and literacy development. It has been established that encouraging reading at all student levels supports literacy—not just literacy in terms of having basic reading and writing abilities, but in being able to perform advanced reading as well as having well-developed listening, speaking, and critical thinking skills. But what kind of reading has the most benefit for young learners? And why? Comprehensible and Compelling: The Causes and Effects of Free Voluntary Reading examines the most recent research and literacy testing results from around the world that document how reading materials must be comprehensible and compelling to bring success. It also presents research findings that show how libraries directly support literacy development, providing arguments and proof that will be invaluable in advocacy efforts for funding and program development.

A Case for Total Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) in a Middle School Foreign Language Classroom

A Case for Total Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) in a Middle School Foreign Language Classroom
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2015
Genre: Communicative competence
ISBN:

"The purpose of this thesis was to determine the benefits of using TPRS in a middle school. It examined experiments that compared TPRS and CLT used with younger learners. It also explored and evaluated specific research-proven activities that foster foreign language acquisition in the classroom. The research showed that TPRS is of equal and sometimes greater value to middle school students' achievement in the foreign language classroom. The research also showed that many specific research-proven activities match activities already incorporated into a TPR and TPRS curriculum and can easily be added to any foreign language classroom."--leaf 4.