Convince your students in five minutes.
They can actually learn a new language.
YOU CAN DO IT with TPR
Dear Colleague,
If you are new to TPR, start with a solid understanding by reading my book, Learning Another Language Through Actions and Ramiro Garcia’s Instructor’s Notebook: How to apply TPR for best results. To ensure success, pretest a few lessons before you enter your classroom. Try the lessons out with your children, your friends or your neighbors. In doing this:
- you become convinced that TPR actually works
- you build self-confidence in the approach
- you smooth out your delivery
After a “silent period” of about three weeks listening to you and following your directions in the target language (without translation), your students will be ready to talk, read and write. This includes students of all ages, including adults.
Our website is loaded with activities that will keep your students excited day after day as they move towards fluency in the target language.
Best wishes for continued success!
James J. Asher, Ph.D.
James J. Asher, Ph.D.
Originator of the Total Physical Response, known worldwide as TPR
Introducing Dr. Asher
by reading his interesting memoir, Growing Up in Norman Rockwell’s America: 30s, 40s, and 50s.
TPR Experts
Student Kits
Teacher Kits
TPR Demos
TPR STARTER KIT
If you are new to TPR, this is a perfect place to start!
#201 Learning Another Language Through Actions – by James J. Asher ………………………… $23.00
#225 Instructor’s Notebook: How to Apply TPR for Best Results – by Ramiro Garcia ………. $20.00
#224 Instructor’s Notebook: TPR Homework Exercises – by Ramiro Garcia …………………… $15.00
Total Value: $58.00
All Three: $48.00
TPR SUPER STARTER KIT
The TPR Starter Kit with an added attraction!
#201 Learning Another Language Through Actions – by James J. Asher …………………………. $23.00
#225 Instructor’s Notebook: How to Apply TPR for Best Results – by Ramiro Garcia ……….. $20.00
#224 Instructor’s Notebook: TPR Homework Exercises – by Ramiro Garcia ……………………. $15.00
#104-DVD Dr. Asher’s “Live” Demonstration of TPR – at the Northeastern Conference ……….. $25.00
Total Value: $83.00
All Four: $63.00
TPR STUDENT KIT SAMPLER
As your students use a kit, they are thinking in the target language!
Home Student Kit – Students understand complex directions in the target language ……………….. $15.00
Classroom Student Kit – Be surprised at how much vocabulary and grammar they acquire! …….. $15.00
Total Value: $30.00
Both for: $20.00
What Teachers and Students are Saying
(from the mail bag of Dr. James J. Asher)
I can’t wait to go to work everyday!
I’ve been using your book, Learning Another Language Through Actions, for my first and second year Spanish classes at a San Diego high school. My students are really responding with enthusiasm and having more and more fun every day. I can’t wait to go to work everyday.
I am curious as to how TPR works in teaching math. I look forward to reading your new book, Let’s Make Sense of Mathematics. So, I just want to thank you and tell you how happy I am with this approach. I know I am giving my students meaningful language input that will gracefully usher them into speaking, reading and writing.
rayna
At first, we could not get Chinese teachers to even look at TPR books
We teach English in a mission school in China. At first, we could not get any of the Chinese teachers to even look at TPR books. They had been taught by British teachers in an English prep school and believed the only way to learn is memorizing lists of words and repeating sentences.
Finally, I took Dr. Francisco Cabello’s book and “ordered” a teacher to follow the script word-for-word from chapter one – and she was shocked to see her students suddenly “come alive.” The students were comprehending vocabulary and short sentences so fast, the teacher had difficulty keeping up with them.
Amazing. The next day, the teacher used the second lesson’s script. Teacher and students were delighted. The third day, the other teachers in the school attended the class to observe and take notes. By the end of the week, TPR had become the standard for beginning English classes. Thanks.
Janice and Richard
A note from Canada about TPR and remote learning
The TPR approach and teaching materials are very much needed in Northern Canada to help children with online remote learning, especially the TPR Student Kits, which are ideal for virtual learning.
Agnes
From Russia, with Love
My students go crazy about this new approach. THEY LOVE it! TPR is so unusual and not the traditional textbook style, my students freeze the first time and can’t accept the fact that you can really learn English through TPR!!! But they see the results almost immediately and they cannot believe it.
About parents
An important note: Here in Russia, we have a very strong old-school approach to teaching other languages, so I have to convince parents that we will go over all aspects of language: Grammar, abstract concepts, pronunciation, reading, etc. That is why I need a complete library of TPR books, games, and student kits. Incidentally, my students are all ages from preschool to adults.
Slava
How Israeli students respond to learning English with TPR
For a number of years already, your Total Physical Response (TPR) approach is by far my best tool in teaching the English language to Israeli Hebrew pupils. They love the lessons, and I love teaching them even more. I thirst for more and more ideas.
We are using your TPR lessons for our Hebrew teachers and finding that the teachers and the children love this way of learning.
Shelley And, Lisa from Temple Shalom
How TPR is working in South Korea
I am teaching at the National University of Education in South Korea as a second language learning instructor. Last week, my student teachers presented lessons to demonstrate your TPR approach and the class became so lively and energetic, they wanted to know all about TPR. Thank you for all your research. Sincerely,
Lee