Total Physical Response

• The goal of total physical response is develop in the order to reduce the stress people feel when studying foreign language and thereby encourage student to persist in their study beyond a beginning level of proficiency. The teacher is the director of all student behavior. Students are imitators of her nonverbal model.

• These same students demonstrate that they can understand the commands by performing them alone. The teacher interacts with the whole group of student and individual student.

• To reduce the stress, people feel when studying foreign language. One of the primary ways this is accomplished is too allow learners to speak when they are ready. The oral modality is primary.

• Culture is a life style of people who speak the language natively. Vocabulary and grammatical structure are emphasized over other languages area. These are embedded within imperatives. The imperative are single words and multi-word chunks.

• TPR is usually introduced in the student native language. The teachers will know immediately whether or not student understand by observing their student action.

• It is expected that students will make errors when they first begin speaking. Teacher should be tolerant of them and only correct major errors.