A Study on the Natural Approach (NA) and Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS)

DOI

10.2991/ssehr-17.2018.92How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Natural Approach (NA), TPRS, second language acquisition.

Abstract

This paper is a literature study of the Natural Approach (NA) and Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS), and tell the origin and development of NA and TPRS, and also introduces advantages and disadvantages of NA and TPRS methodologies, and explains clearly the relationship between NA and TPRS, their tenets and practices fits well with each other, NA is a development of TPRS. Total Physical Response (TPR) stresses the responding to an instructor's verbal commands with body movements, late reading and storytelling adds to it, then TPR becomes TPRS. NA originates from the baby's acquisition of first language and its principles are low anxiety, moderate input, and enough patient waiting.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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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