Learning Another Language Through Actions

by Asher, James J.

• ISBN13: 9781560185024
• ISBN10: 1560185023
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Sky Oaks Productions

Table of Contents

PART I TPR: A PERSONAL STORY	1	(1)
Pre-TPR	1	(34)
The Teaching Machine	3	(1)
Guessing by the Learners	3	(4)
Power of Guessing: An Explanation	7	(1)
The First Trial Learning Hypothesis	7	(3)
One Trial Learning	10	(4)
A High Velocity Logic Theory of Information Processing	14	(4)
The Crucial Test: A Cause-Effect Theory of Learning	18	(2)
Another Discovery: Zero Trial Learning	20	(1)
The Laboratory	21	(1)
Let's Get a Research Grant	22	(1)
Maybe a Motion Picture is the Answer	23	(1)
My First Motion Picture	24	(2)
What's in a Name?	26	(1)
Another Attempt to Persuade Washington	27	(3)
The Search for the Secret Behind TPR	30	(1)
The Myth of Children's Superiority in Language Learning	31	(2)
The ``Thick Tongue'' Phenomenon	33	(1)
The Search Continued for the Secret Behind Language-Body Learning	33	(2)
Making Documentary Films	35
The Film in Japanese	35	(2)
The Film in German	37	(3)
The Adult Film in Spanish	40	(1)
The Children's Film in Spanish and French	41	(4)
The Lost Film of Nava	45
PART II THE PROBLEM	1	(1)
An Instructional Strategy that Produces High Motivation	3	(1)
Summary	4	(1)
The Evidence	4	(13)
Classroom studies with children	5	(1)
Laboratory studies with children	6	(1)
Laboratory studies with adults	7	(4)
Classroom studies with adults	11	(1)
Learning German in night school	11	(2)
Learning German: The University of Texas Experience	13	(1)
Learning Spanish	14	(1)
English as a second language	15	(2)
Why It Works	17
Infant Development	17	(2)
Summary	19	(1)
Brain Lateralization	19	(5)
Application to Language Acquisition	24	(1)
Playing to the Right Hemisphere	25	(1)
TPR	25	(1)
The Learnables	26	(1)
The Sens-it Cell Model	26	(1)
Interactive Tape and Teacher Technique	27	(1)
Suggestology	28
PART III MOST OFTEN ASKED QUESTIONS	1	(1)
PART IV CLASSROOM LESSONS	1	(1)
How to orient and motivate the students	1	(4)
How to start the training
The importance of novelty
How to expand basic structures	5	(6)
Hints on pacing
The rule of three in introducing vocabulary
How to cope with the fast-moving pace	11	(2)
The value of novel commands that are playful, silly and even bizarre
Why there is no tedious repetition of sentences	13	(4)
The first reading experience
How to increase your sense of timing	17	(1)
The first experience of role reversal
Using video tape to enhance the student's sense of achievement
The first experience of directing questions to students	18	(2)
Why students should not be interrupted as they speak in role reversal
What can be expected from new students entering the class for the first time
Learning numbers	20	(4)
Contrasts such as ``long'' and ``short''
Students utter commands to direct the behavior of a teacher's aide
Introduction of the present continuous	24	(1)
More with numbers
Short answer questions
Preparation to visit a department store	25	(2)
More on the present progressive
Introduction of ``Who is . . .?''
Reading
Introduction of ``Where is . . .?''	27	(2)
More on the present continuous
A slide presentation of a clothing store
Writing personal information
Introduction to possessive pronouns
Asking questions of students	29	(2)
Demonstrating the present continuous with personal pronouns
Introduction of days of the week
More with the question word ``Who.''
More practice with the days of the week	31	(2)
Review of the present continuous with personal pronouns
More on possessive pronouns
The first experience of reading a story
Slide presentation of a clothing store	33	(1)
Review of the present continuous
A general review
Field trip to a clothing store	34	(1)
Review of the clothing store experience	35	(1)
Review of the present continuous
Review of short-answer and longanswer questions
Using commands to review contrasts (e.g., tall and short)	36	(2)
Using short answer questions to review contrasts
Introduction of affective (i.e., emotional) states as angry, sad, happy and so forth
General Review including parts of the body, colors, numbers, clothing, opposites, prepositions, possessive pronouns, and the present progressive
Review of opposites	38	(1)
Review of emotional states
New Vocabulary
Role reversal
Fast-moving review	39	(1)
Pancho Carrancho
Role reversal
Reading a second story	40	(1)
New vocabulary
Review of question words---what, who and where
Using commands to review verbs and verb inflections	41	(1)
Introduction of the past tense
New vocabulary about occupations
More with the past tense	42	(1)
Review of occupations
Reading
More with the past tense	43	(1)
A new twist with the past tense
Review of occupations
Reading and writing personal data
Review of the past tense	44	(2)
Different sentences, but the same grammatical cue
Introduction of negation combined with the past tense
Reading and writing personal data
Review of the past tense	46	(1)
Questions to be answered in the past tense
Reading
Making clocks
Telling time through commands	47	(1)
Fine detail in telling time
More with the past tense
Reading and writing	47	(2)
Review of all content
Pancho Carrancho
Consumer behavior: buyer-seller transactions	49	(1)
Slides of a supermarket	49	(1)
Role playing in a supermarket
Introduction of places (hospital, bank, etc.)
More on places	50	(1)
Reading sentences created by students
Review of student-constructed sentences	51	(1)
Review of the past tense
Pancho Carrancho with vegetables
Introduction of the past form of the verb ``to be''
More on the past form of the verb ``to be'' with new verbs	52	(1)
More with places (home, school, store, etc.)
Short-answer questions
Practice with ordinal numbers
Reading	53	(1)
Review of the past tense
More with demonstrative pronouns
Slides of a supermarket	54	(1)
Role playing transactions in a supermarket
Reality-testing (students uttered commands to move visitors)	55	(1)
Discussion groups
Review of the verb ``to be''	55	(2)
Reading
Pancho Carrancho
Reading	57	(1)
Introduction of restaurant vocabulary
Role Playing
More restaurant role playing	58	(1)
Ordinal numbers
More with ordinal numbers	58	(1)
Everyday dialogues
Role playing restaurant situations	59	(1)
Practice with the relative clause
Review of everyday dialogues
Travelogue	60	(1)
Some follow-up geography
A tactile experience
Object descriptions	61	(2)
Family vocabulary
Family vocabulary	63	(1)
Introduction of the future tense
Role reversal
Review of family vocabulary	63	(1)
More with the future tense
Review of the future tense	64	(1)
New commands
Field trip to a house
Review of the future tense	65	(1)
Pancho Carrancho with verb cards
The future tense with the Michigan Cue Cards
Role reversal	65	(1)
Field trip to a house
Reading
Verb review	66	(1)
House review
Introduction to ``there is''
Review of house vocabulary	67	(1)
Review of ``there is''
Continuation of ``there is''	67	(1)
Adjectives
Review of ``there is''	68	(1)
Introduction of ``there are''
A guest speaker
Reading review of ``there is'' and ``there are''	69	(1)
Introduction of ``can''
More with opposites
Review of opposites	70	(1)
Introduction of ``I can't''
An imaginary car
Acting out what was read	71
Slides of a gas station
Role playing gas station transactions
PART V SELECTED REFERENCES	1	(1)
PART VI UPDATE TO THE FIFTH EDITION	1	(1)
Interview: A Conversation with Dr. James J. Asher about Total Physical Response (TPR) and Education
Experiences of Classroom Teachers - The application of TPR to Higher Order Thinking Skills	5
PART VII FROM MY MAIL BAG	1