Today’s focus is TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling). Understanding TPRS: What It Aims to Achieve TPRS is a language‑acquisition method created in the late 1980s by Blaine Ray, a Spanish teacher who noticed that despite his best efforts, his students were making very little progress. Influenced by Stephen Krashen’s theories of second‑language acquisition, he developed a method built around one core belief: "Students acquire language best when they hea