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A Pilot Study Comparing Total Physical Response Storytelling™ With The Grammar-Translation Teaching Strategy To Determine Their Effectiveness In Vocabulary Acquisition Among English As A Second Language Adult Learners, Ruben Castro
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This study evaluated the effectiveness of Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS™) compared to the Grammar-Translation approach for acquiring and retaining new vocabulary in an English as a Second Language (ESL) class. The subjects were adult Hispanic learners with limited literacy. An experimental design approach was used to gather information on the effect of TPRS™ and Grammar-Translation approaches on student vocabulary retention. A total of 25 participants signed the consent to be a research subject. All participants took two written pretests that examined their knowledge of common words. Following each pretest, the instructor taught three classes using the Grammar-Translation approach and …