methodology...Total Physical Response

Techniques and Principles”
In Language Teaching

Total Physical Response

1)Asher believes that foreign language instruction can and should be modeled on native language acquisition. What are some characteristics of his method that are similar to the way children acquire their native language?


It is believed that children learn by movements. To define the general characteristics of the TPR, three aspects must be taken into account: linguistic theory, pedagogical theory and sociolinguistic theory. That only after assimilation and verification can be put into operation.





2)One of the principles of TPR is that when student anxiety is low, language learning is enhanced. How does this method lower student anxiety?


When we see an aerobics class it is not the same as when we participate in it. The adrenaline begins to flow throughout our body and we begin to activate our mind searching for the best response. Likewise it is this method when we make the class an exercise where all the classmates are participants, the learning is done in a simple and participative way.






B Apply what you have understood about Total Physical Response.


I arrive to my class with teacher. I greet my students and I begin to tell them to do certain exercises using their body, first the exercises they do with me then they will do it alone and then the exercise would vary and apply them to other students, they would really be commands to thus in that way playing learn to obey orders. Which  will look fun, dynamic and trigger in the activity all the adrenaline they have.








1) Although the teacher uses imperatives, she does so in a gentle, pleasant way, the way a parent would (usually! do with a child. Her voice, facial expression, and manner are kind. Practice giving the commands in this chapter in this way.


Go and look for that chair
Go and call your brother
Buy me rice and pasta
Search the dog
Come to eat
Release the cat




2) A lot of target language structures and vocabulary can be taught through the imperative. Plan part of a TPR lesson in which the present continuous tense, or another structure in the target language, is introduced.

Mary, when you are putting those weights on the table, wash your hands
Mary gets a rope for the dog.





1)In the action sequence (operation) that we looked at, the teacher had the students pretend to write and mail a letter. Think of three other common activities which could be used as action sequences in the classroom. Make a list of commands for each one.


1) Take the tip of the pencil in the trash
Copy the tasks correctly
Clear the board when the class ends.

2) Read the sentence
Write the sentences
Explain what you understood.

3) Stand next to your partner

There will be the book on page 3

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