My curriculum for all of my ESL classes is largely based around stories, no matter what level. I didn’t intentionally set out to focus on stories. When I first started trying to focus on providing more comprehensible input to my students, I did it because of what the research on second language acquisition shows and …
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TPRS in the Adult ESL Classroom: Part 3—The “Life Skills” Focus of Most Adult ESL Classes
This is the third part in a series of blog posts on how to use TPRS in the adult ESL classroom. The first post in the series focused on age, and the second post focused on translation. Most adult ESL programs emphasize teaching students “life skills” or “survival skills” that they will need to get …
TPRS in the Adult ESL Classroom: Part 2—Translation
This is the second part in a series of blog posts on how to use TPRS in the adult ESL classroom. The first post in the series focused on age. Traditional TPRS, as it is typically used in a K-12 foreign language classroom, relies pretty heavily on translation. TPRS emphasizes the importance of making sure …
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TPRS in the Adult ESL Classroom: Part 1—Age
When I first started using TPRS with my adult ESL students, I was a little worried about whether it would work and how it would be received by the students. And I didn’t have many examples to go off of; when I googled “TPRS in adult ESL,” I only found one article. That article was …
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Allison Lewis 