Ellen Wants Purple Ramen: Creative Storytelling to Increase Japanese Fluency
Ellen Wants Purple Ramen: Creative Storytelling to Increase Japanese Fluency
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Date
2018-05
Authors
Clippard, Rebecca
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University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University
Abstract
Since 2003, Middle Tennessee State University’s Center for Accelerated
Language Acquisition (CALA) has been providing successful language classes in
Spanish, German, French, Tamil, Latin, Chinese, and Arabic, and it now has a Japanese
class. I utilized research from Total Physical Response (TPR), Comprehensible Input
(CI), and Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS). The languageacquisition
theories contrast with the more popular notion that successful language
learning is best done by the younger age groups. Taking the research into account, I wrote
an easy-reader novella in Japanese to expand acquisition for language learners. The
novella also strengthens the teaching materials I have already created for CALA’s
Japanese language classes. My goal is for the novella to be used by all language levels to
reinforce listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills.
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Japanese,
CALA,
TPR,
TPRS,
teaching,
foreign languages