Total Physical Response (TPR)

It is a method created by James J. Asher in 1965.

He is a psychologist and made his first experiment with Japanese in 1965 when he taught English.

A metaphor of this method would be: "The instructor is the director of the stage play in which the students are the actors".

He published a book in 1977 called: Learning a Language Through Actions. His method is based upon the assumption that the second language should be learned as the first language.

So, if our parents made some speech, we could follow by a physical response.

With this method, we have to use the right hemisphere of the brain and engage students without any stress for them.

In this prezi, we see a presentation about TPR and some activities for teachers that some of my classmates and I did for a subject.

http://prezi.com/jw5nu-3gnrwb/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

After using this method, you can reflect in the comment section if this method works or not in your own class.