TPRS

• engels
• HBO
• Beroepsopleiding
• Studiejaar 4

TPRS

Een kennismaking.

Karin Winkel

programme

• activating prior knowledge
  
• why stories are the key
• story approach
• technique: circling (information and hands on)
• example of story approach
• (short) evaluation

What do you know about TPRS?

‘Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling‘ 

examples of what you do when:
asking questions
circling
scaffolding

What works for you in getting the children to speak?

Stories are the key

A narrative view of strategy stresses how language is used to construct meaning; consequently,
it explores ways in which organizational stakeholders create a discourse of direction (whether about becoming, being, or having been) to understand and influence one another's actions. 

What the story revolves around, how it is put together, and the way it is told all determine whether it becomes one worth listening to, remembering, and acting upon. Thus, strategic effectiveness from a narrative perspective is intimately tied to acceptance, approval, and adoption.

Belova, O., King, I., & Sliwa, M. (2008). Introduction: Polyphony and organization studies: Mikhail Bakhtin and beyond. Organization Studies, 29(4), 493-500

The underlying belief

[...] we exist as bounded, self-motivated agents who act on our environment and instead shift our attention to what happens between individuals and others around them, in the responsive nature of their actions and understandings, and temporal and embodied aspects of language that guide their interactions.

Brown, A. D. (2006) A narrative approach to collective identities.
 Journal of Management Studies, 43 (4). pp. 731-753. 

Comprehensible input

Comprehensible input is language input that can be understood by listeners despite them not understanding all the words and structures in it. 

According to Krashen's theory of language acquisition, giving learners this kind of input helps them acquire language naturally, rather than learn it consciously.

However, make sure that your stories include at least 80 percent words and expressions that your students can understand. The stories should also contain realistic examples that may help the students exercise their language skills in real life.

TPRS® is a method of s​econd-language teaching that uses highly-interactive stories to provide comprehensible input and create an immersion-like environment. TPRS® maximizes the input in the classroom by making the input comprehensible, repetitive and interesting

The story approach (preparation)

1. Ask questions to choose a character
2. Determine a problem
3. Try to solve it–adding in as many interesting details as possible along the way.

01:32

what have you picked up from the video so far?

1. statement
there is a ... / ...

2. questions to which the answer is YES

3. questions to which
the answer is NO

4. [follow up]
the question uses 'either'/ 'or'

5. [recycling information]
who .../ what ...

6. [pulling new ideas]
why .../ with whom ... / how often

7. [filling the blanks]
questions with filling the key details

7. [filling the blanks]
questions with filling the key details

8. [repeating the story]
(any differentiation possibilities?)

9. teacher, go slow!
ANY OTHER TIPS?

one example

(of a story approach)

1. Ask questions to choose a character
2. Determine a problem
3. Try to solve it–adding in as many interesting details as possible along the way.

Template/format

There is a _________. He walks to ________. He sees ________. He also sees ________. He feels _______ because ________. He decides to __________.

the story (eventually)

There is an alligator. It walks to McDonalds. It sees a person. It also sees a hamburger. He feels sad because he is a vegetarian and he is hungry. He decides to start his own restaurant.

evaluation (1):
what more information do you need?

evaluation (2):
what will you start doing tomorrow?

THANK YOU!!!