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TPR stands for Total Physical Response and was created by Dr. James J Asher. It is based upon the way that children learn their mother tongue. Parents have 'language-body conversations' with their children, the parent instructs and the child physically responds to this. The parent says, "Look at mummy" or "Give me the ball" and the child does so. These conversations continue for many months before the child actually starts to speak itself. Even though it can't speak during this time, the child is taking in all of the language; the sounds and the patterns. Eventually when it has decoded enough, the child reproduces the language quite spontaneously. TPR attempts to mirror this effect in the language classroom.
It can be adapted for all kinds of teaching situations, you just need to use your imagination!
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http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/total-physical-response-tpr
practise (a rehearsal beforehand can help), it won't take a lot of time to get ready. It is very effective with teenagers and young learners. It involves both left- and right-brained learning.
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