A Study on the Effectiveness of TPR and TPRS in Short-Term Chinese Language Training at the Beginner Level

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10.2991/icitel-15.2016.22How to use a DOI?

Keywords

TPR; TPRS; effective; Chinese as a foreign language; acquisition

Abstract

TPR and TPRS enjoy worldwide popularity among language instructors. An empirical research was carried out in a Summer Program targeting children and teenagers followed by another study targeting adults. The learning results are productive with the overall development of learners' language abilities, which leads to the conclusion that the two language teaching methods are effective for teaching Chinese as a foreign language on a short term basis. However, the instructors face great challenges in application and further studies are required.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ming Chang
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BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Technologies in Education and Learning
PB  - Atlantis Press
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