Total Physical response TRP
- 1. Name: Sagar B. Vaghela Roll No: 32 Enrollment No: 2069108420180052 Paper No: 12 English Language Teaching 1 Topic: Total Physical Response (TPR) Batch: 2017-19 Email Id: sagarvaghela2020@gmail.com Submitted To: S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU
- 2. Total physical response (TPR) is a language teaching method developed by James Asher, a professor emeritus of psychology at San José State University. It is based on the coordination of language and physical movement. In TPR, instructors give commands to students in the target language with body movements, and students respond with whole- body actions.
- 3. Learners role of listen and perfome Students should be more active and talkactive The coordination of speech and action Great deal of listening and acting Seated in a semi circle Directing a performance in which the students are actors
- 4. In the classroom the teacher plays the role of parent. She starts by saying a word ('jump') or a phrase ('look at the board') and demonstrating an action. The teacher then says the command and the students all do the action. After repeating a few times it is possible to extend this by asking the students to repeat the word as they do the action. When they feel confident with the word or phrase you can then ask the students to direct each other or the whole class.
- 5. It is fun, easy, and memorable It benefits the struggling students Creates positive thinking Actions help build connections in the brain There is no pressure to speak It reduces learning stress
- 6. Teacher’s Role The teacher plays an active and direct role He/she controls the language input Decides what to teach Student’s Role Listeners and performers They monitor and evaluate their own progress Students obeys the teacher instructions
- 7. Thus we can say that TPR is very important in education system because TPR seems to work effectively for the children and the adults and there is no age barrier.