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Teach Chinese - The Active Way
What?
Why?
How?
What?
STEP 1 The teacher inputs language using Chinese only.
STEP 2 The teacher uses gestures to convey meaning.
(no English is spoken)
STEP 3 The student performs the action only.
Meaning and Context
Comprehensible input
No translation necessary!
Stress-free environment
What we know…
The more intense a memory connection is traced, the stronger the memory association
More likely to be recalled.
Retracing is done verbally with motor activity.
Cognitive Approach
Learning Chinese creates specific demands on the
areas of the brain for remembering visual
patterns.
Connections and Patterning
Brain seeks connections, context and meaning!
Adjectives
没意思
忙
干净
冷
舒服
好吃
快
胖
高
Why?
The 7 Learning Principles
1 Readiness2 Exercise3 Effect4 Primacy5 Recency6 Intensity7 Freedom
Purpose, Meaning, Motivation Recall, Review, Summarize
Emotions and Motivation
Strong impression
Repeat, Restate, Reemphasize
Dramatic and Sensory
Active
Why use TPR?
Learning Outcomes
Language Content Affective Filter
The affective
filter
Why use TPR?
The search for meaning is innate.
The search for meaning comes through patterning.
Emotions are critical to patterning.
Why use TPR?
把三明治放在头上Why use TPR?
把铅笔放在鼻子上Why use TPR?
Long-term RAPID retention
‘magic’ effect!
Why use TPR?
Why use TPR?
Differentiation Learning
Why use TPR?
One size doesn’t fit all!
Why use TPR?
Content
Simple Complex
Why use TPR?
走 走到门走到门
Process
Why use TPR?
Process – activities in which the student engages in order to make sense of or master the content
Product
Products – culminating projects that ask the student to rehearse, apply, and extend what he or she has learned in a unit.
Why use TPR?
Why use TPR?
RapInterview
GameMap
CartoonSurvey
Bumper Sticker Poster
Comic
Why use TPR?
How?
Total Physical ResponseStep 1: The teacher gives the command.
Step 2: The teacher models the movement.
Step 3: The student performs the action.
1. Warm up at beginning of lesson
2. Introduce new vocabulary
3. Evaluation
How to use TPR
Grammar Rules
Vocab. Lists
Irresistible Learning
Step 1: The teacher gives the command.
Step 2: The teacher models the movement.
Step 3: The student performs the action.
机器人
Comprehension
precedes
Production
(Krashen & Terrell, 1983, p. 20)
Recycle Language
How to use TPR
Getting Ready
What content do you want to teach?把
How to use TPR
Use Stress and Intonation!
• Humour• Gestures must be clear!
How to use TPR
EMOTIONAL response facilitates memory formation!
How to use TPR
Write a Script
1. Language content – Vocabulary
2. Grammar
How to use TPR
站起来
请坐
指门
指向你的鼻子
把书放在桌上
把三明治放在头上
把铅笔放在鼻子上
Storytime Chinese!
More complex language
My Morning Routine
我起床wǒ qǐ chuáng
我揉眼睛wǒ róu yǎn jīng
我打呵欠wǒ dǎ hē qiàn
我打喷嚏wǒ dǎ pēntì
我咳嗽Wǒ késou
我洗脸wǒ xǐ liǎn
我刷牙wǒ shuā yá
我刷头发Wǒ shuā Tóufǎ
我穿衣服 wǒ chuān yī fu
我吃早饭 wǒ chī zǎo fàn
我背上书包wǒ bēi shàng shū bāo
我打开门 wǒ dǎ kāi mén
我走路上学 wǒ zǒu lù shàng xué
Let’s recap!
The Silent Period
Krashen, Stephen D. 1981. Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition.
Comprehension
precedes
Production
(Krashen & Terrell, 1983, p. 20)
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