CIREBOOT 2022 TPR in Japanese with additional resources Shelley Thomas 60 minutes

At the Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition (CALA) 5- day language classes are taught, which last three hours per day. TPR interactive activities are used to learn about 200 words, including various points of pop-up grammar the first two days, then TPRS is used in the next two days, which scaffold on another 100 vocabulary words/various points of pop-up grammar, and finally, day 5 is used to create an original student story, then read and answer questions about chapter one of a simplified novel, like Poor Ann. Another 50 words are learned in that context. See CALA research results published in Krashen’s IJFLT here: https://www.mtsu.edu/cala/documents/CALA_article_I...

Dr. Shelley Thomas is the founder and director of the Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition (CALA). See her bio. here: https://www.mtsu.edu/cala/sthomas.php