Conference
TPRS in Europe in 2014
Here are the names of some of the teachers who are using TPRS in Europe.
Judith Dubois
Conference
It Can Be So Easy!
We tend to dwell a lot on the difficulties of using TPRS, but Alva, who had never heard of it before last Saturday, went back to her classroom and tried it out, with great results.
Classroom Strategies
Rachel and Phrasal Verbs
In Besançon Teri and I were hosted by Rachel, a lively English girl who gives private English lessons and teaches in a business school. She has given her company the very appropriate name of Smile, since it’s difficult to think of Rachel without seeing her radiant smile.
Classroom Management
What’s Wrong with Communicative Activities?
I recently saw a comment on Twitter by someone who wanted to know why they had heard “communicative” used as a derogatory term by TPRS teachers. I remember when I first came across a book of communicative activities and I thought it was wonderful.
Comprehensible Input
A Day in Grenoble
Today I’m in Grenoble, a lovely city in the valley of the Isère River overlooked by the majestic, snow-capped chaine de Belledonne. Teri Wiechart and I are the guests of Marie-Pierre Jouannaud, who teaches methods classes at the University of Grenoble.
Classroom Management
When Excellent Is Not Good Enough…
Some of my students have reached excellence in their spoken English. They are basically autonomous, able to read novels in English, able to follow dialog in a movie, able to carry on a conversation and express their ideas coherently. Yet they feel frustrated about their ability and insist that they still make mistakes.
Articles from the Net
When They Know It and Don’t Know They Know It
Haiyun teaches Chinese using TPRS and blogs about her experience at tprsforchinese.blogspot.fr.
Recently she discussed the fact that sometimes students know more than they think they do.
Comprehensible Input
TESOL France’s 32nd Colloquium Stephen Krashen
TPRS grew out of Blaine Ray’s desire to make his teaching more effective by applying Stephen Krashen’s principles to his everyday class activities. A lot of lip service is given to Krashen’s hypotheses in the foreign language community, but how many of the new methods actually apply his principles?
Classroom Strategies
Reading a Novel
Once students have acquired enough vocabulary that they can read short texts with ease and pleasure, it’s time to start thinking about reading a novel with them.
Classroom Management
A Few Tips From an Old Timer
As we start in on the new school year, the moretprs forum and Ben Slavic’s blog are discussing the issue that never fails to come up at this time of the year (and in November when students and teachers start getting weary, and in March when it seems like spring will never come): the issue of classroom management.