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PROCEDURE
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1. Make a warm-up using commands as and-approaches-alternative-20th-

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wash, look for, hold, comb, etc. The idea is _physical_response

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
to use this kind of verbs with a
complement that relates with them. DIDACTICS
3. Introduce another commands that refers
forms and objects, to use this commands
the instructor gives instruction to students.
Finally, instructor makes simple questions
YAMITH FANDIÑO PhD
where students answer with gestures. LAURA CARVAJAL
GERALDINE MORENO
Note: During the class instructor can reversal ALEJANDRA GARZÓN
roles (students make questions and instructor LAURA BERMUDEZ
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INTRODUCTION
Total Physical Response (TPR)
TPR (Total Physical Objectives:
is a language teaching method
build around of speech and Response)
The general objectives of the TPR method are mainly
action and attempt to teach
directed to the elementary teaching. Because of his
language through physical
and activity. To provide and
Theory of Language strategies, that connect easily with the learner.as:

enjoyable learning Asher believes that learners can acquire a "detailed It's focus in particular needs.. It allows the student
experience, having a minimum cognitive map" as well as "the grammatical structure progress and encourage himself obtaining
of the stress that typically of a language" without recourse to abstractions. uninhibited communication.
accompanies learning a foreign
language.
Syllabus design
Theory of Learning
1. Requires initial attention to meaning rather than in
The method was
1. Specific innate bio-program for language the form of items.
developed by James
learning. 2. Grammatical features and vocabulary selected
Asher, a professor of according to situations in class.
psychology at San 2. Brain lateralization can defines different
3. Limited items to teach.
Jose State University, learning functions in the left-right brain
4. Gobal meaning: It means communicative and
California, it draws on hemispheres. language organization.
several traditions, 3. Stress influence the act of learning and what is 5. Body teaching support.
including to be learned; the lower the stress, the greater
developmental the learning.
psychology, learning
the ory, and humanistic "A reasonable hypothesis is tha the brain and nervous
pedagogy system are biologically programmed to acquire language... Teacher and learner roles:
in a particualar sequece and in a particular mode. The
sequence is listening before speaking and the mode is to
synchronize language with the individual's body." (Asher
"The instructor is the director of a stage play in which
1977:4) the students are the actors" (Asher 1977:43)
Total physical response is an example of
the comprehension approach to language
teaching. Methods in the comprehension approach
emphasize the importance of listening to language
development, and do not require spoken output in
the early stages of learning. In total physical
response, students are not forced to speak.
Instead, teachers wait until students acquire
enough language through listening that they start
to speak spontaneously. At the beginning stages
of instruction students can respond to the
instructor in their native language.