What does TPR teaching mean?

TPR teaching method is a direct communication teaching method, which is the abbreviation of total body response. It emphasizes the interaction of the body and the vividness of teaching, so that children can understand the learning method more intuitively.

TPR teaching method was put forward by Dr. James J. Asher, a famous American psychologist. Its theoretical basis lies in: when people learn a language in early childhood, listening and speaking promote their oral and written expression ability. When the information obtained through listening and speaking changes from quantitative to qualitative, children can naturally express themselves in words.

The focus of teaching is to help students understand and communicate in English, not to correct the mistakes made by students in the learning process. This will help students to eliminate nervousness and study in an environment that is not afraid of setbacks.

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Advantages of TPR teaching:

1, directly form English thinking, without Chinese explanation, and directly understand through actions.

2. The most effective input (the action is not incomprehensible) is the fastest, and the learning effect can be detected immediately to reduce anxiety.

What happens around you is that there are many nouns and verbs, and learning with TPR is the fastest.

4. When you don't understand, parents won't worry about whether to explain it in Chinese.

5. Many picture books are mostly verbs and nouns, which expand into games. Doing some jumping movements is the content of TPR, which is more interesting.

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