TPRS: teaching proficiency through reading and storytelling. This is a technique of using story-telling to get students used to certain words or phrases, grammatical structures, or simply to hearing language.
Blaine Ray and Jason Fritze are the minds behind this.
TPR: total physical response. This involves gesturing and getting up and doing things to commit ideas to kinesthetic memory.
Dr. James Asher is the TPR guy.
WAYK: Where Are Your Keys. This is Evan Gardner's brainchild and is a system of games that allow you to find and fill holes in your language skills. Ideas are presented entirely in the target language, and students prove acquisition by using the ideas in context. Watch the video - it helps.
Embedded Reading: creating various, leveled versions of readings to work up to a more difficult text.
Michele Whaley and Laurie Clarcq began this.
FVR: free voluntary reading. Letting students choose what they'd like to read.
Stephen Krashen is the loud voice about this.
Scaffolding: providing successive levels of support to students that build on what they know. We use this to bridge gaps and to support our students' progress. When the student has 'mastered' the skill, the scaffolding is theoretically removed. (I find that in a language classroom, removing support tends to result in bridges collapsing, but that may just be my experience)
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