What is TPRS?

Terry Waltz introduces TPRS.

[@ronnygefferson5294]

I could understand way more about TPRS just watching these explanations. Congratulations Terry Waltz.

[@terrywaltz9167]

Thank you for your kind words!

[@teacherchil]

Hi....thank you for your wonderful explanations. I'm getting into TPRS now and I'm in love with it. Circling questions are changing the way I teach.

[@redmed10]

Love the concept of differentiation to keep quick responders interested.

[@trentasaurus]

Thanks so much for this video.

[@patrickmullen273]

Dear Terry Waltz, I'm reading your book TPRS with Chinese Characteristics, and popped on here to see if you have any videos - and I'm pleased to see that you have many! I wonder if you have produced an "official" list of high-frequency/-importance words in Chinese.

[@skaggle1]

This is a great explanation & should be viewed WAY more than current numbers. (Especially compared to "how best to utilize Duolingo or Memrise..."

[@m.a.b.2350]

Excellent video Terry ! I agree, students are lucky to have you as their language teacher.

[@sharmila6837]

Thank you for the informative video. Your students are lucky to have you as a teacher.

I love TPRS, Terry. I'm an English teacher in Brazil, and have been using it with my private students online. I'm still getting the hang of it, but it's a lotta fun for me and the students. Wish I could attend your Chinese classes. Thanks for the video or better: Xièxiè =)

[@danielmasis9781]

Hi Fábio, Do you use any app or software to support TPRS to your online students?

[@Breckley]

Great explanation!

[@KennethSymicek]

Thank you for the good understanding of what TPRS is.

[@eenstah]

Fantastic video! 😊 Thanks!

[@user-vr2bs4yj6y]

Thank you so much for sharing. I wish I could do this with my students someday.

[@laurenatalavedra2882]

Thank you! this is awesome and helpful!

[@delsonmartin9166]

this interview talk . So valuable. To me at least. wow...experience, honesty and the most important i guess u do what u love

[@luckybeliever]

Thank you! It's helpful !

[@Andy-cc4qy]

thank you so much for a great explanation

[@ahanz5757]

Not sure if you will reply...but is there an app or an online program that mimics TPRS? With Covid19, the teaching landscape is changing dramatically...

[@audemillecamps7878]

HI Terry. What you are doing is amazing. Thanks for sharing. You mentioned a French teacher, would you happen to have his contact. I am also a French teacher and would love to ask him a few things. Thanks very much. Aude

[@trentasaurus]

Do you have any more information that you can share about the French teacher with the well-behaved class? I'm a little more laid back as well and I'd love to see a video or read something from him (or someone with a similar style).

[@whitebutterfly7966]

您太厉害呢.我是一个教法语的爱尔兰人老师。我也在网上学习中文。我真的喜欢看看你表示方法的视频，加油

[@latifa6836]

Salut. Est ce que vous pouvez écrire un résumé des idées expliquées dans cette vedio. Merci

[@greenwhiskey7]

Hi I am wondering if you have time to tutor an independent language learner in Chinese?

[@eliassolis4437]

Where I can learn TPRS ("Teaching proficiency through reading and storytelling"") technique as a teacher of Spanish? I am a native Spanish speaker. I want to be a language teacher for not native Spanish speakers in Ecuador, like people from china that are living here, there is a lot of Chinese migrants in Ecuador that make middle income and revenue, they normally have restaurant and commerce business but they can't speak Spanish. I want to study for a master's degree in language teaching methods but using language acquisition theory as a model. I am not a teacher I am another type of professional. I know that this method has scientific papers that explain, study, and compare this method. I want a master's degree in the topic. Thank you for reading this and thank you for the video I found it very informative and entertaining.

[@terrywaltz9167]

There is no place doing a Master's in TPRS (actually, now we would more commonly say "comprehensible input-based") teaching. I do eight-session webinar series periodically called Teaching with Comprehensible Input: the Essential Knowledge series. Usually they run about every 3-4 months.

[@Ruthli520]

你好Terry，请问我可以在哪里学习这八节课？😇@@terrywaltz9167

[@leslierose-akumbu4263]

How did you learn Chinese? Did you live in China? Thank you for this video.

[@datcatsavedme7071]

She studied Chinese in Georgetown and for their junior year they have to study abroad in whatever language they are studying

[@tomaskuli177]

The Michel Thomas method works for me.

[@terrywaltz9167]

The Michel Thomas method is only partly aligned with comprehensible input. The focus is on student output and conscious correction of errors, and errors are practically unavoidable as the output is forced before students have acquired the language. IMO TPRS is more effective for accurate, long-term acquisition because of its focus on input and because conscious error correct to "help the student understand his mistake" has been shown in research to be ineffective.

[@tomaskuli177]

Terry Waltz Hi, thanks for the feedback. I'm doing self study. I started with Duolingual and so had some basis in vocabulary, although a rote method. So Michel Thomas method resonated with me because I had a vocabulary basis but needed grammar. I can see someone struggling with his method who is without prior knowledge of at least vocabulary. But I only know his method on tape. In a classroom settiing would his method be much different? He makes you say aloud ever expanding complex sentences on the same basic theme. A single premise, with longer and longer sentences that teach you grammar. I've already learned one language and realized (like a child who begins to self correct) my own grammatical mistakes and the rightness of that language. This was with formal classroom instruction and immersion with native users. Without that (self study - no classroom, no immersion with natives), I've arrived at the same sense with the language I'm studying with his tapes - the grammar feels right, English word order does not. Is your method available for the adult learner with online access? Language Transfer is also a similar method to Michel's,which works for me. Again, I acquired vocabulary with rudimentary understanding of grammar. I'm taking German BTW.

[@terrywaltz9167]

It's just not as in line with what we know about the brain to ask a learner to produce a sentence and then try to correct it. Better to flood the learner with comprehended input, and let output come when it's natural.

[@redmed10]

Tomas Kuli Have you ever tried linkword method which mixes vocabulary and grammar?

[@lostn65]

Can you really learn an entire language this way, or just a few sentences?

[@terrywaltz9167]

It just builds and builds. So yes, you really can. The point of this method is to get the structure (grammar) acquired -- after that you expand vocabulary through extensive reading and listening.

[@lostn65]

@@terrywaltz9167 it would take a lot of stories to cover all the vocab you need? Or is it just a stepping stone towards getting students to start seeking other resources (TV shows, books, newspapers, etc)? Is it a faster method of acquiring language than the traditional teaching methods?

[@niv-hardzen]

@@lostn65 It is more effective, because you recreate stories and imagine them.