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A 6 page paper. The Total Physical Response (TPR) approach to teaching foreign language has been used successfully for about thirty years. As good as this approach is, it has limitations that are addressed with the Total Physical Response Storytelling approach. This essay explains the premises underlying TPR, the originator of the method and then the originator of Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPR-S). The step-by-step method of TPR-S is provided including an example from a basic Spanish textbook. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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this approach is very effective (TPR World, nd). The Total Physical Response approach "is based on the premise that the human brain has a biological program for acquiring any natural
language on earth - including the sign language of the deaf" (TPR World, nd). This process is observable when watching infants learn their own language (TPR World, nd). The approach
is based on conversation that typically involves only a few words and that is directs the infant to do something, e.g., "Look at daddy. Look at daddy" (TPR World, nd).
When the infant turns his head towards the sound, the adult believes that the infant has followed a direction and exclaims in delight (TPR World, nd). Asher calls these first
experiences a "language-body conversation" because the parent is using words and the infant is responding through some type physical response (TPR World, nd). This type of interaction goes on
for many months - parent gives some verbal conversation or direction and infant answers through some physical response (TPR World, nd). The infant is learning language, or learning the codes
of that language and eventually will begin to speak (TPR World, nd). In other words, TPR is founded on the ways in which infants learn their first language - through
silence, listening and learning to decode the sounds before they speak. TPR is so successful that it is believed that most foreign language teachers use the method, especially to enhance
long term memory of vocabulary words (Marsh, nd). The link between physical response, i.e., involvement of muscles, and the brain that is decoding the words, is much stronger than the
aural process of hearing and speaking immediately. There are limitations to TPR, however. Marsh identifies the limitations as: 1. It is often focused on short phrases or single-item vocabulary words
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