Total Physical Response
- 1. Total Physical Response Name: Raval Mital M. Roll no: 19 Year: 2016 – 2018 M.A. Sem: 3 Paper name: English Language Teaching Presentation Topic: Total Physical Response • Submited to: Dr. Dilip Barad Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English M.K.Bhavnagar University
- 2. Background •Total Physical Response (TPR) is method developed by Dr. James J. Asher. • TPR as a result of his experience observing young children learning their first language. •He notice that interactions between parents and children often took the form of speech from the parents followed by a physical response from the child. •Total Physical Response is linked to the “trace theory” of memory in psychology.
- 3. What is TPR? •Total Physical Response is a language teaching method built around the coordination of speech and action, it attempt to teach language through physical activity. •In TPR instructors give commands to students in the target language and students respond with whole body action. •It is popular with beginners and with young learners of this method
- 4. Characteristic of TPR Focusing on meaning and comprehension. Great deal of listening and acting Verbal response is not necessary. Humor is easy to introduced. Teacher always uses the target language. Overcoming the fear of speaking. Grammar is taught inductively. Students should be more active and talkative. Learning language by body movements. Reading and writing is taught after grammar and vocabulary.
- 5. Procedure Review: • This was a fast moving warm up in which individual students were moved with commands •For example, Rita, pick up the knife and spoon and put them in the cup. New Commands: •Basic verbs were introduced like, Wash = wash your hand wash your face etc…. •Then introduced some word which used in various sentences. Quickly = walk quickly to the door and hit it. Sit down quickly and write.
- 6. continue… •Next, the instructor asked simple questions which the student could answer with a gesture. For example, - Where is the toothbrush? Reading and writing: •The teacher wrote on the chalkboard each new vocabulary item and a sentence to illustrate the item. •Then teacher spoke each item and acted out the sentence. Student copied information in their notebook.
- 7. Theory of language •Most of grammatical structure of the target language and hundreds of vocabulary items can be learned from the skill full use of the imperative by the instructor. •In TPR verb is central linguistic motif around which language use and learning are organized. •Asher believes that learners can acquire a “detailed cognitive map” as well as “the grammatical structure of a language” without recourse to abstraction.
- 8. Theory of learning Asher give three learning hypotheses The Bio- program Reduction of stress Brain Lateralizatio n
- 10. Brain Lateralization •Asher sees TPR as direction to right – brain learning, where as most second language teaching methods are directed to left brain learning. •Asher interprets these as demonstrating that the brain is divided into hemispheres according to function, with language activates centralized in the right hemisphere.
- 12. Objectives •The general objectives of Total physical Response are to teach oral proficiency at a beginning level. •Aim is to teach basic speaking skill. •It’s another aim is produce learners who are capable of an uninhibited communication that is understandable to a native speaker.
- 13. The syllabus design •The syllabus is predictable from the exercise used in the class. •A sentence based syllabus with grammatical & lexical criteria being primary in selecting teaching items. •Grammatical features and vocabulary items are selected as according to the situation.
- 15. Role of materials •For absolute beginner lesions may not require the use of material since the teacher’s voice, actions and gestures may be sufficient. •The teacher can uses basic classroom objects such as books, pens etc… As the course develops, the teacher will need to collect new materials. These may include pictures, slides, word charts etc…
- 16. Advantages and Disadvantages of TPR Advantages Disadvantages Good tool for building vocabulary. It does not require a great deal of preparation. Help the students immediately understand the target language. Helps learners achieve fluency faster in learning language. Create positive thinking Challenging for shy student. Rude and inappropriate language of the learner. Students are not generally given the opportunity to express their own thoughts in a creative way. It is not a very creative method. Certain target language may not be suited to this method.