TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE

Total Physical Response is the method which the teacher gives a command in the target language and performs it with he students. Teachers who use this method believe in the importance of having their students enjoy their experience in learning to communicate in a foreign language. In fact, TPR was developed in order to reduce the stress people feel when studying foreign languages and thereby encourage students to persist in their study beyond a beginning level of proficiency. For this method, the teacher gives the commands quite quickly so, the students can initially learn one part of the language rapidly by moving their bodies. They are several advantages from using this method such as, the students can learn through observing actions as well as by performing the actions themselves, and students can learn by watching each other. In this method, vocabulary and grammatical structures are emphasized over other language areas. These are embedded within imperatives. The imperatives are single words and multi-word chunks. One reason for the use of imperatives is their frequency of occurrence in the speech directed at young children learning their native language.