2020 - 2021.

Didactics

Module 3. METHODOLOGY

Module 2.3.3. Total Physical response

ÀMBIT DE LLENGUA ESTRANGERA

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Doble titulació (English) - URV

Dr. Sergi Roura.

ÀMBIT DE LLENGUA ESTRANGERA

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 MOST WELL-KNOWN METHODS

❑ The Grammar Translation Method

❑ The Direct Method

❑ The Audio-Lingual Method

❑ Total Physical Response

❑ Suggestopedia

❑ The Communicative Language

Teaching

❑ Task-based Approach

❑ Content-Based Learning

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❑ Author: James Asher

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TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE METHOD

❑ Author: James Asher

❑ Objectives

o To enhance the process of language acquisition

o To use the correct part of the brain to acquire

language

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TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE METHOD

❑ Author: James Asher

❑ Objectives

o To enhance the process of language acquisition

o To use the correct part of the brain to acquire

language

Asher looked at the way in which we learn our native language and he saw that
most children before even they were to school picked up both a very large
percentage of both grammar and vocabulary that they would use in their native
language before any type of form of schooling.

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It’s accepted that within our brain there are

two atmospheres.

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One of the functions of the right atmosphere is controlling our

body’s movement and what Asher said is that when we are young
what we tend to do in the way in which we learn language is to use
the whole of our brain
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Whereas formal schooling tends to use only

half of it … only the left-hand site. So, his
idea was to try to introduce movement into
the process of learning a language so they
were using the whole brain and therefore
doubling the capacity within that process. So
use of motion and learning would be a typical
way of using TPR.

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 TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE METHOD

❑ Author: James Asher

❑ Objectives
o To enhance the process of language acquisition
o To use the correct part of the brain to acquire
language

❑ Material:

o Realia

o Images

o Everyday objects

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 TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE
METHOD

❑ Author: James Asher

❑ Objectives
o To enhance the process of language acquisition
o To use the correct part of the brain to acquire language

❑ Material:
o Realia
o Images
o Everyday objects

❑ Typical activities

o Teacher giving commands

o Gestures / Physical responses to commands

o Change of role

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❑ Contributions

o Pre-speaking phase silent period

o Use of movement and physical action

o Motivation

o Very good for young learners

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TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE
METHOD

❑ Contributions

o Pre-speaking phase silent period

o Use of movement and physical action

o Motivation

o Very good for young learners

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TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE
METHOD

❑ Contributions

o Pre-speaking phase silent period

o Use of movement and physical action

o Motivation

o Very good for young learners

o Long-term repetition

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❑ Drawbacks

o Higher levels

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❑ Drawbacks

o Higher levels

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