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Total Physical

Response (TPR)
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Total Physical Response (TPR)
• TPR: built around the coordination of speech and action;

• it attempts to teach language through physical motor


activity.

• developed by James Asher, a professor of psychology at San


Jose State University, California.
• He claims that:
• speech directed to young children consists primarily of
commands, which children respond to physically before
they begin to produce verbal responses.
• Asher shares with the school of humanistic
psychology a concern for the role of affective factors
in language learning.
• Asher has created an account of what facilitates foreign language
learning.
• For this dimension of his learning theory he draws on three influential
learning hypotheses:
• 1. There exists a specific innate bio-program for language
learning which defines an optimal path for first and second
language development.

• 2. Brain lateralization defines different learning functions in


the left-and-right brain hemispheres.

• 3. Stress intervenes between the act of learning and what is


to be learned; the lower the stress, the greater the learning.
• Listening should be accompanied by physical movement.

• Speech and other productive skills should come later.


The objectives of TPR
• to teach oral proficiency at a beginning level

• Comprehension is a means to an end

• the ultimate aim is to teach basic speaking skills

• TPR requires initial attention to meaning rather than to the form of


items

• Grammar is thus taught inductively


•What is the learner
profile of TPR?
• Learners in TPR have the primary roles of listener and
performer.

• They listen attentively and respond physically to commands


given by the teacher.

• Learners are also expected to recognize and respond to


novel combinations of previously taught items.
• Learners monitor and evaluate their own progress.

• They are encouraged to speak when they feel ready to


speak—that is, when a sufficient basis in the language has
been internalized.

• The teacher plays an active and direct role in TPR.


• A sample from TPR lesson

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