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who developed the TPR method?
JAMES ASHER
What does Asher suggest?
ASHER (1984) BELIEVES THAT IF A STUDENT CAN FIRST DEPICT THE MEANING OF THE LANGUAGE IN THE RIGHT BRAIN ASSOCIATED WITH OBSERVED ACTIONS, HIS/HER LEFT BRAIN WOULD BE ABLE TO GRADUALLY INTERPRET AND DECODE THE LANGUAGE SYSTEM AFTER SUFFICIENT EXPOSURE
It was mentioned that TPR is a natural approach. Why?
01 - STUDENTS ARE NOT FORCED TO PRODUCE LANGUAGE UNTIL THEY FEEL READY AND HAPPY TO DO SO
02 - THERE IS NO EXPLICIT TEACHING INVOLVED; INSTEAD STUDENTS PICK UP THE LANGUAGE AS AN UNANALYZED CHUNK THROUGH LISTENING
03 - ERRORS ARE MUCH TOLERATED IN TPR WHEN STUDENTS ATTEMPT TO SPEAK
What does TPR stand for and what is the main purpose of this method?
Total Physical response. TPR is a language-teaching approach based on the coordination of language and physical movement.
What are two aspects TPR is rooted in?
cognitive science and behaviorist tradition of psychology
What are the advantages and disadvantages of TPR?
•TPR greatly reduces the stress and can be interesting to students. •TPR helps students to achieve long-lasting learning outcome as it involves frequent recycling of language contents. •this method starts with right-brain learning, so there is no analytic or academic skill requirement. It is an aptitude-free approach that gives everyone a chance in language learning. •from a teacher’s perspective, TPR is easy to implement as it does not require a textbook (unless until a very late stage) or extensive lesson or realia preparations
•it is rarely used beyond the beginning level at the young ages. •it seems to ignore the fact that the brain gradually matures and loses it plasticity