Total Physical Response

TOTAL PSHYSICAL RESPONSE:
What is it?

‘’it is a method built around the coordination of speech and action’’ this method is used in order to reduce stress at classroom.

James Asher, professor at San Jose State University, California created several traditions in which second language learners such as adults may have progress on verbal responses.

A typical TPR activity might contain instructions such as "Walk to the door", "Open the door", "Sit down" and " jump''. The students are required to carry out the instructions by physically performing the activities. Given a supportive classroom environment, there is little doubt that such activities can be both motivating and fun, and it is also likely that with even a fairly limited amount of repetition basic instructions such as these could be assimilated by the learners, even if they were unable to reproduce them accurately themselves.

Advantages:

• Students don not get bored easily.
• It is fun
• It does not require a lot of preparation
• There is no age, national, genre, racial barrier.
• It is a good tool for learning vocabulary

Disadvantages:

• It is difficult to the students to communicate by giving their point of view.
• Vocabulary Saturation

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF TPR: The coordination of speech and action:

·         Learner’s roles of listener and performer.

·          Listening skills improves

·          Learners monitor and evaluate their own progress.

·         Reading and writing is taught after grammar and vocabulary. Imitate.

·         Grammar is taught inductively. Grammar and vocabulary selected according to the situation.

·         Learning language by gesture (body movements).

·         The teacher and the students are the actors.

·          Students should be more active and talkative. Motorist student

Students: 
Students have to answer teacher’s instruction in order to follow the class. 

Teacher: 
 He or she explains all the activities
 He or she present materials and select contents. 
 He or she supervise interaction between students.
 He or she correct mistakes