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TEFL 5

Total Physical Response (TPR)

By Gabrielle, Sarah, Layla & Laura

What is TPR?

What are the goals of teachers who use TPR?

1. Enables students to communicate in the target language.
2. The enjoyment of the experience of learning to communicate.
3. The teacher doesn't have one clear goal. It is different for each teacher.
4. To teach language that is meaningful.

Teacher's goal

• Focuses on a low-stress environment
• Krashen's low-affective filter
• Classroom atmosphere
• Students' self-confidence 

Role of the teacher

Role of the student

Both

director of all behavior

imitators

role reversal

Role of the teacher and role of the students

• Teachers             Director    
• Students              Immitators   
• After 10-20 hours of instruction, students are ‘ready to speak’.

What characteristics of the teaching/learning process

Characteristics

• 1st phrase: Modeling
• 2nd phrase: demonstrating understanding
• 3rd phrase: reading, writing and speaking

What is the nature of student-teacher interaction?

1. teacher doesn't interact with students.
2. teacher interacts only with the entire class.
3. teacher interacts with the entire class and individual students.
4. teacher interacts only with individual students.

What is the nature of student-student interaction?

1. students perform the commands together and learn from observing each other.
2. students don't interact with each other.
3. the students evaluate each other.
4. students work together by evaluating and correcting each other.

Teacher-student(s) interaction and student(s)-student(s) interaction

• Teacher-student(s): interacts with whole class and individual students.
• Student(s)-student(s): Follow commands together, observe each other.
• Role-reverse: Students command each other, others and teacher follows along.

How does TPR allow students to be in a low-stress enviroment?

1. students can speak when they feel ready.
2. language learning is made enjoyable and fun.
3. students are not rushed into doing anything they don't want to do.
4. all of the above.

Feelings of students

• Stress-free atmosphere is very important.
  
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  Language learning can be fun. 
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  Done by allowing students to speak when they feel ready and commands given are often humorous.

True or false, the oral modality is primary in the way culture and language is viewed.

1. True
2. False

How is the language viewed

• The oral modality is primary. Culture is the lifestyle of people who speak the language natively.

What areas of language are emphasized?

1. Listening and grammatical structures.
2. Writing and grammatical structures.
3. Reading and grammatical structures.
4. Vocabulary and grammatical structures.

What language skills are emphasized

• Vocabulary and grammatical structures are emphasized.
• These are embedded within imperatives. 
• Frequency of occurrence.

True or false, a student's native language has no role in the total physical response.

1. True
2. False

The role of students' native language

• Introduces in native language.
• Afterwards rarely used.
• Meaning made clear through body language.

How is evaluation accomplished?

How evaluation is accomplished

• Understanding is observed through students' actions.
• Formal evaluations are conducted by commanding to perform a series of actions.

How does the teacher respond to student errors?

1. Teacher should be tolerant of them and only correct major errors.
2. Teachers should be tolerant of them and correct all errors.
3. Teachers should be tolerant and not correct anything.
4. Teachers should be tolerant and let students correct each other.

Teachers response to student errors

• Errors are expected at first.
• Only major errors are corrected.

Techniques

• Using Commands to direct Behavior
• Role Reversal
• Action Sequence

Practical application of TPR

• Target group: Havo 2