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Total physical response
Language teaching method
Total physical response (TPR) is a language teaching method developed by James Asher, a professor emeritus of psychology at San José State University.
It is based on the coordination of language and physical movement.
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In TPR, instructors give commands to students in the target language with body movements, and students respond with whole-body actions.
The method is an example of the comprehension approach to language teaching. Listening and responding (with actions) serves two purposes: It is a means of quickly recognizing meaning in the language being learned, and a means of passively learning the structure of the language itself.
Grammar is not taught explicitly but can be learned from the language input.
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TPR is a valuable way to learn vocabulary, especially idiomatic terms, e.g., phrasal verbs.
Asher developed TPR as a result of his experiences observing young children learning their first language. He noticed that intera