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3.2.3. Method of Total Physical Response as Comprehension-Based Method

It sprang to life in the USA during the last decades of the 20th century. It was created by Asher, a professor of psychology [53]. The dominating idea of the method was that teaching foreign languages is to be based on coordination of speech and action. Listening should be accompanied by physical move­ments of the body, demonstrating the contents of the utterance. This gives learners the ability to respond physically to spoken language in the form of parental commands and provides stress-free learning.

In the description below we used some material from the book by Rich­ards J. C. and Rodgers T. S.[82, 87-99].

The teacher says to his learners: "Come up to the window". Saying this he/ she simultaneously carries out this action. Then he pronounces a similar com­mand "Open the window." and carries it out. Then the teacher asks the learners to pronounce the commands and carry out the corresponding actions. The move­ments involve touching, grasping and manipulating with different objects.

Both children and adults can be taught by the method of TPR. The aim of the method is to teach oral speech. The course consists of 200 hours of instruction for children and 159 hours for adult learners. A lot of real things, pictures, kits with special objects are used as visual aids.

Below a description of the sixth class is described. The lesson begins with a warm-up:

Pablo, drive your car around Miako and honk your horn.

Jeff, throw the red flower to Marie. Maria, scream.

Rita, pick up the knife and spoon and put them into the cup.

Eduardo, take a drink of water and give the cup to Elaine. [82]

New verbs and commands are introduced through demonstrating physical actions either with real things or pictures. A sentence to illustrate the meaning of each item is also given. Then the teacher acts the sentence. After that three more sentences with the verb are acted, e.g.: wash — / wash hands in the morning. From 14 items to 36 items are introduced this way. The number depends upon the stage of training.

The next stage is asking simple questions, e.g.: Where is the towel? Point to it.

Attracting learners' attention to the their future activities and focusing them on the latter is the next stage: the teacher pronounces some commands and car­ries them out.

Role reversal is next. Students are suggested to utter commands and to ma­nipulate the behavior of the teacher and others students. They readily volunteer. Learners should get used to uttering and carrying out commands easily and be - ~>le to utter commands on the spot depending upon the situation.

Teaching reading and writing is the next task. The teacher writes each new :em on the chalkboard and a sentence to illustrate the item. Then (s)he speaks each item and acts out a sentence.

The author of the method supposes that the method should be used in com­bination with many other techniques. When dialogues are studied, then the stu­dents role-play.

The method of TPR is based on rich comprehensible input and reduction • stress by means of game like movements of the body.