TPRS

Michel Baker is looking for an experienced TPRS coach in the Carolinas. What’s happening over there? Michel is in the Columbia, SC area.

Is the fear that many teachers have, when they consider the possibility of changing to the new CI paradigm, accurate? Is it really fear of change that makes them drag their feet into the new CI paradigm? What is keeping new teachers from embracing CI with more immediacy and vigor? Why has the movement stalled? 

I am making three TPRS books available to all PLC members for free. The books are TPRS in a Year!, PQA in a Wink! and Stepping Stones to Stories. Just email me at benslavic@yahoo.com and tell me which ones or all three that you want.

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

The purpose in NTCI is not to teach words from lists but to teach language from images. This keeps the focus of the learner on the language as a whole, and not on pieces of the language so that the students can pass a test on the words for the rooms in a house. Thus,