TPR

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)