TPR-Total+Physical+Response

**IT’S ALL IN THE WAY WE LEARN...** TPR 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. The process is visible when we observe how infants internalize their first language. The secret is a unique "conversation" between the parent and infant. For example, the first conversation is a parent saying, "Look at daddy. Look at daddy." The infant's face turns in the direction of the voice and daddy exclaims, "She's looking at me! She's looking at me!" Dr. Asher calls this "a language-body conversation" because the parent speaks and the infant answers with a physical response such as looking, smiling, laughing, turning, walking, reaching, grasping, holding, sitting, running, and so forth. Notice that these "conversations" continue for many many months before the child utters anything more intelligible than "mommy" or "daddy." Although the infant is not yet speaking, the child is imprinting a linguistic map of how the language works. Silently, the child is internalizing the patterns and sounds of the target language. When the child has decoded enough of the target language, speaking appears spontaneously. The infant's speech will not be perfect, but gradually, the child's utterances will approximate more and more that of a native speaker. Children and adults experience the thrill of immediate understanding when you apply this powerful concept in your classroom.
 * ** What Is TPR? ** **

Benefits of TPR

World's most **thoroughly researched approach** in second language acquisition.
 * **Successful with children and adults learning any language.**
 * **Three strong features:**

// High-speed understanding of any target language // // Long-term retention // // Zero stress! // Language instructors often say to me, "I tried the TPR lessons in your book and my students responded with great enthusiasm, but what can the students do at their seats?" Here are effective TPR activities that students can perform at their seats. Each student has a kit such as the interior of a kitchen. Then you say in the target language, "Put the man in front of the sink." With your playboard displayed so that it is clearly visible to the students, you place the man in the kitchen of your kit and your students follow by performing the same action in their kits. ||
 * **Another unusual feature: enjoyable for teachers as well as students!**
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As items are internalized, you can gradually discontinue the modeling. Eventually, you will utter a direction and the students will quickly respond without being shown what to do. Each figure in the **TPR Student Kits** will stick to any location on the playboard **without glue**. Just press and the figure is on. It can be peeled off instantly and placed in a different location over and over.

You can create fresh sentences that give students practice in understanding hundreds of useful vocabulary items and grammatical structures. Also, students quickly acquire "function" words such as **up, down, on, off, under, over, next to, in front of**, and **behind**.

To guide you step-by-step I have written 10 complete lessons for each kit (giving you about 200 commands for each kit design), and those lessons are now available in **your choice of English, Spanish, French, German, or Dutch**. The kits can be used with **children or adults** who are learning **any language** including **ESL** and the **sign language of the deaf.** || []

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