Multisensory approach to teaching English

Sensory dictation

Multisensory approach
Total Physical Response
(TPR)
Theory of Multiple
Intelligences
Neuro-Linguistic
Programming
(NLP)

Total Physical Response
TPR (total physical response) is a method of teaching language using physical movement to react to verbal input. It allows students to react to language without thinking too much, facilitates long term retention, and reduces student anxiety and stress.

NLP
Body-mind
connection

NLP
“Each of us has within us whatever we need in order to achieve what we want to”

Theory of multiple intelligences
(Howard Gardner)
Intelligence
The linguistic
intelligence
The logical-
mathematical
intelligence
The intrapersonal
intelligence
The interpersonal
intelligence
The Musical
Intelligence
The spatial
intelligence
The kinaesthetic
bodily
intelligence

Multisensory approach
Whole-brain
approach

Language work
Lexis + grammar + pronunciation

Grammar
“Moving in time”
Irregular verbs

Grammar
Mime the grammar
While I was watching a comedy the cake got burnt.
I’m going to ski down the hill.
I’ve won in a lottery and now I can buy a car.
I’ve been painting the wall for three hours and now I’m tired.

Pronunciation
“Sound Machine”
Storytelling

Punctuation
“Percussion punctuation”

john was out in the garden looking for something he was on hands and knees in flower border his wife saw him from an upstairs window opened the window and called down to him what are you doing im looking for my keys your keys lost them in the garden did you no in the house then why are you looking for them in the garden he straightened his back and looked up to her the light is better in the garden

john was out in the garden // looking for something // he was on hands and knees in flower border // his wife saw him from an upstairs window //opened the window and called down to him//what are you doing //im looking for my keys// your keys // lost them in the garden // did you // no //in the house //then why are you looking for them in the garden// he straightened his back and looked up to her // the light is better in the garden

John was out in the garden, looking for something. He was on hands and knees in flower border. His wife saw him from an upstairs window, opened the window and called down to him:
“What are you doing?”
“I’m looking for my keys.” “Your keys? Lost them in the garden, did you?”
“No, in the house.”
“Then why are you looking for them in the garden?”
He straightened his back and looked up to her: “The light is better in the garden!”

Punctuation
Peter where Mary had had had had had had had had had had the teacher’s approval.
Peter, where Mary had had “had had” had had “had”. “Had had” had the teacher’s approval.

Speaking
“Human camera”
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Internalizing the language
Internalising a poem
a…. L….c….c…t…t…t…o…t….t….
I….t….I….t….a….n….s…h…
s….u….a…l…h…b…t….g….
t….s….a….c…..
t….h….f…a…..

NB!
Studens’ motivation depends partly on how “addressed” they feel in the class.
Students realise that they can approach the language from their strength areas.
Students not only have the opportunity to use their strongest intelligences but also develop their weaker ones.