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Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition

Our Methods

We invite you to take a look at the methods we use in the classroom to provide you the most engaging and effective language-learning experience possible:  Total Physical Response (TPR) and Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS). You can then see video footage of these methods in action in Our Classes . . . 

TPR/TPRS with children in a tribal village in India 
Dr. Patrick Conley endorses TPR/TPRS methodology
Dr. James Asher’s insightful and compelling 
commentary on the state of language learning today

Contact Us

Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition (CALA) 
c/o Shelley Thomas
Middle Tennessee State University
Honors Box 267
Murfreesboro, TN 37132 


Shelley Thomas, Ph.D.
CALA Director
shelley.thomas@mtsu.edu

Brian Roberts, M.A.T.
CALA Associate Director
brian.roberts@mtsu.edu