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Total Physical Response

Total Physical Response (TPR) is a language teaching method that uses physical actions to help students learn a new language. The teacher gives students commands that they act out with their bodies. The role of the teacher is to direct the commands and model the actions, while the students' role is to listen and imitate the teacher. They first demonstrate understanding through physical response, then work on speaking, reading, and writing the vocabulary. The goal is for students to enjoy learning and reduce stress through kinesthetic activities.

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Total Physical Response

Total Physical Response (TPR) is a language teaching method that uses physical actions to help students learn a new language. The teacher gives students commands that they act out with their bodies. The role of the teacher is to direct the commands and model the actions, while the students' role is to listen and imitate the teacher. They first demonstrate understanding through physical response, then work on speaking, reading, and writing the vocabulary. The goal is for students to enjoy learning and reduce stress through kinesthetic activities.

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By:

Monica Selviana
Sella Safitri
Roisatul Mahfi

Total Physical Response (by James


Asher) is a language teaching method
built around the coordination of speech
and action; it attempts to teach language
through physical (motor) activity.

Goals
1. Having students enjoy their experience in
learning to communicate in a foreign
language
2. To reduce the stress of language learning
3. Encourage students to persist their study
The role of the teacher
1. Director of all students behavior
2. Controls language input

The role of the students:


1. Listener
2. Imitators of the teacher nonverbal model
3. Performer
Characteristics of the teaching process:
1. Modeling: teachers give commands
2. Performing:
students
show
their
understanding of the commands by
performing them alone
3. The students learn to read and write the
commands.
4. Speaking when they are ready

Procedure

New vocabulary
Students do actions
introduced
with teacher
and demonstrated

Expansion activities
Variations
Practice

Students respond
to teacher commands
as a group and individually

Students
give the
commands

Student-Teacher interaction
1. The teacher speaking and the students
responding nonverbally
2. The students become more verbal and
the teacher responds nonverbally
Students feelings are dealt
1. Speak when students are ready
2. Make language learning as enjoyable as
possible
3. Less modeling
4. Feel success

Emphasized language areas:


1. Vocabulary
2. Grammatical structures
Emphasized language skills:
1. Listening
2. Speaking
Instructional materials;
1. No basic text
2. Teachers voice, actions and gestures
3. Common classroom objects
4. Kits

Students native language rarely be used


Evaluation: by commanding students for
perform a series of actions
Errors: teachers should be tolerant
Techniques:
1. Using commands to direct behavior
2. Role reversal
3. Action sequence

Enjoyable and easy for


teachers as well as students
Long-term retention
(recollection-keep in mind)
Immediate comprehension of
the target language
Stress-free
Facilitator in language
learning
A helpful alternative
teaching strategy

Only suitable for beginner


level
A challenge for shy students
Use of the imperative may
lead
learners
to
use
inappropriate
or
rude
language in the future

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TPR is a method that using


physical activities. TPR needs
stimulus from the teacher and
the students should response
by imitating the teacher
gestures. TPR is a method
that
really
helpful
for
beginner learner. Because it
has fun atmosphere in the
classroom.

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