TPRS/TPR/Songs: Methods to learn a Second Language

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".

Watch this video.  The new vocabulary words or structures are:
Hay - There is/are
Va a  -  goes to
Le gusta  - likes/is pleasing to
Quiere - wants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSeqcFep77

Total physical response (TPR) is a language-teaching method developed by James Asher, a professor emeritus of psychology at San José State University. It is based on the coordination of language and physical movement. In TPR, instructors give commands to students in the target language, and students respond with whole-body actions.

The method is an example of the comprehension approach to language teaching. Listening serves a dual purpose; it is both a means of understanding messages in the language being learned, and a means of learning the structure of the language itself. Grammar is not taught explicitly, but is induced from the language input.

Watch this video to see how TPR works in a class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrj3pNN7nI8


Use of songs and games to learn Spanish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQSJxtbZgxs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoarvInDDjA&feature=fvwp&NR=1

Immersion Programs Examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJrllnsX60