TOTAL PHYSICAL

RESPONSE
BSE-ENGLISH 1
GROUP 23
 TOTAL PHYSICAL
RESPONSE?
• Also known as TPR.
• A language learning method that
makes use of body movements with the
acquisition of the new language.
• It mimics how children learn their first
language.
•It is a way of teaching language that
uses both verbal communication and
physical body movement.
• A few examples of TPR includes facial
expressions, body language, gestures, or
physical props.
 DR. JAMES J. ASHER, PH.D.
• An American Psychologist and a professor of psychology.
• Proponent of the Total Physical Response
(1970) approach to second language
acquisition.
TPR is built on the theory and research of many
language acquisition specialists and continues to
develop according to the findings of classroom
experimentation and new brain research.
Asher suggests that the right hemisphere of the
brain, which is responsible for motor skills,
imagination, and listening skills, among many
others, be engaged before the left hemisphere that
is responsible for language learning.
"Babies don't learn by memorizing lists;
why should children or adults?"
 MAIN 3 HYPOTHESES
OF TPR

Language is Language learning Learning language

learned must engage the should not involve
primarily by right hemisphere of any stress.
listening. the brain.
 The process of TPR mimics
the way that infants learn
their first language, and it
reduces student inhibitions
and lowers stress. Its main
aim is to create a link
between speech and
PURPOSE OF action to boost language
and vocabulary learning.
TPR
 BENEFITS OF TPR
01 Stress 02 Learner can build 03 Makes the process
their own of learning
Reduction. understanding of extremely
what the are enjoyable.
learning.
BASIS OF TPR'S FOUNDATIONAL
PRINCIPLES
Languages are best learned
when the learner receives lots
of comprehensible
(understandable) input.
Beginning language learners
can benefit greatly from a
"silent period" in which they
learn to understand and
respond to parts of the
language without attempting
to speak it.
VARIATIONS OF TPR
"TPR WITH
1. TPR-O OBJECTS"

This is best done sitting a table that has

some objects on it. For example, one day
you could raid the produce stand and then
sit down with your Turkish friend to a table
of fruit. That day you could not only learn
the words for "apple", "banana", "orange",
and so on, but also, "give me", "take", "put",
"smell", "bite", "roll", "peel", and "show me".
 2. TPR-S TPR Storytelling

Is a method of teaching foreign

languages. TPRS lessons use a mixture of
reading and storytelling to help students
learn a foreign language in a classroom
setting.

The method uses storytelling as a teaching

tool. In the TPRS class, the teacher and
students co-create stories in the target
language to facilitate language acquisition.
It involves the teacher (and eventually the
students) acting out simple stories as a
means of understanding the story and
internalising vocabulary.
 3. TPR-P TPR WITH PICTURES

Pictures are extremely effective language learning tools. For

example, you're actually living in England and have gone
around and taken 150 or so pictures of people doing different
things and then arranged these pictures in an album. Your
English friend could go through and say "This is a man. This is
a boy. This is a man. This is a boy. Where is the man? Where
is the boy?" Gradually both background and foreground
objects in the pictures could be learned, as well as verbs: "The
carpenter is hitting the nail with a hammer," leading to
requests such as "show me the man who is hitting something".
Even verb tenses can be incorporated by asking your friend
(or tutor or teacher) to talk about all of the pictures as if they
happened last week, or now, or next week. The actual physical
response with pictures is fairly basic--pointing at something--
but the opportunity for vocabulary acquisition is a broad as
the types of pictures you can use.
 4. TPR-B TPR with Body

Includes everything that can be

done with general body movement:
stand up, sit down, turn around,
turn right, turn left, lift up your
arm, touch your nose, etc. This is
best done in a room with some
space to move around.
 Assessment and Testing TPR
Formal Assessments:
1. Matching pictures with statements
2. Match actions with commands. You say a command and either you or
another person acts out a command. If the action matches the words, the
students check YES or RIGHT on an answer sheet.
3. You say a command and the students write it out in English. (Asher said
that this type of assessment produces lower results)
4. You say a command and the students draw it out.
5. You say a command and the students act it out. (This is time consuming)
6. Logical/Illogical sentences: You say a command and the students need
to determine if the command is logical or not, i.e. Turn the blackboard
around. (This one my students find extremely difficult.)
Nina Dobrev once said, “ Even though you're growing
up, you should never stop having fun.” So, learn as
much as you can but always remember that learning
will be more efficient when you have fun while you do
it..
THANK YOU
PRESENTERS:
MAYA, LOWELA A.
URBANO, SHAINE