Some newer members of our community may not be aware about something I wrote in a comment to Orlando this morning, so just to repeat the point here:
I try to direct the discussion here in the direction of NTCI and not TPRS. Since 2015, after ten years of writing books about TPRS, I finally gave in and realized that it didn’t really work for me. It took me writing all those books to understand that.
So in 2015 I started doing a new way of using comprehensible input in the language classroom that I call Non-targeted CI, or NTCI. It does not stray so far from the pure research as does TPRS, in my studied opinion.
TPRS made me too nervous. There were too many rules and too many experts telling me what to do, and that I had to do it that way. NTCI revealed to me my own true love in pedagogy and changed my results and class engagement dramatically, and more importantly my sense of peacefulness and mental health. There was just better student engagement when working from images of characters we created instead of using comprhensible input to teach word lists, etc. .
The differences are described here:
There are currently four books that have been published or are in the process of being published since 2015 that don’t reflect the content of the previous books that I had written prior to 2015 about TPRS. So NTCI (Using the Invisibles and One Word Images) is kind of a horse of a different color.
Horses of a different color gallop differently. I like the gait. You don’t bounce around in such crazy fashion. It’s a smoother ride. Horses of a different color don’t fart as much.