Total Physical

Response (TPR)
By Maria Camila Agudelo Loaiza,
Edna Alexandra Imbachi Guaca,
Jhonatan David Suarez Garzon &
Juan Manuel Prado Ramirez
Conceptualization
Communicative actions
in target language in
most expressive way as
possible
 Advantages
01 02
Affective filter Input
Low between students and Comprehensible, level of
teachers as a condition proficiency (i+1)

03 04
Skills Participation
In students, self-confidence When students feel
boosted and anxiety is reduced ready to do so
Students are not
able to speak the
target language
Acquisition over learning in abundant
input requiring or no verbal response
from students to acquire important
lexicon
 By
A sh
er

Reduce
stress

Base foreign
language upon
the way children
learn their native
language
 Roles of teachers and students
Stage 1 Stage 2
Teacher as director of all Students practice target
student behavior language in a nonverbal way

Stage 4
Students becomes like
Stage 3
directors At some class some students will
(giving instructions to be ready to speak
teacher and partners)
 Characteristics

Modeling Demonstration Recombinatio

• Commands to • The same n of
some students commands to commands
know if students
comprehend and • Understanding
the developing of unfamiliar
it in observers utterances (often
humorous)
 ATTENTION
When students begin to speak, perfection should not be expected

Use of zany
commands and
humorous skits

Jump to the desk, stand up in

the chair, sit down in your
backpack, etc
Language and culture
The oral modality is primary, culture
is the lifestyle who speak the
language natively
Notes
● Take some notes
about something you
need to do here
● Take some notes
about something you
need to do here
● Take some notes
about something you
need to do here
Emphasized areas of language skills
Vocabulary and grammatical
structures throughout
imperatives (multi-word
chunks)
Any subject is prone to be
learnt until after 10
hours of instruction
 Evaluation and errors
Commanding individual
students to perform a
Teachers should be tolerant
series of actions
and only correct major
errors. In the
development it can be
corrected more minor
errors
 Resources
• https://seidlitzblog.org/2019/05/08/total-physical-response-learning-through-action/
• https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/teachers/managing-lesson/articles/total-physical-
response-tpr
• https://www.creativechinese.com/presentation-tpr-total-physical-response/
• https://www.teachhub.com/teaching-strategies/2020/09/how-to-use-total-physical-response-tpr-in-the-classroom
/

• https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar-topic/commands-imperative/imperatives/70530
• https://www.marstranslation.com/blog/language-and-culture
• https://www.shutterstock.com/es/search/evaluation
• TRPR method document provided by the professor
 Thanks!

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