TPR+Bruna+and+Fernanda

Bruna! I have created this page in our wiki so we can discuss how we are going to present the TPR. Fernanda

Hello Fernandinha, este é o power point incial e a explicação dos 3 primeiros slides. Então vc ficou com o power point final e a explicação dos 3 últimos slides. Okay??? FIRST SLIDE Total Physical Response is based on the principles of the Comprehension Approach. From the other methods we saw before, this is the first to think about understandin first and then producing. This method's first researches apeared in the 60's and 70's It takes many months of listening for a baby to speak his first word, that's how we acquire our native language. And that is exactly what TPR is approaching.

SECOND SLIDE Before the TPR approach, there were other3 approaches that were based on or had something from the Comprehension Approach Natural Approach, Self-instructional program of //The Learnables,// Lexical Approach Although these 3 approaches above have something similar to the TPR approach, we are not going to explain them, since our focus is on TPR.

THIRD SLIDE According to James Asher, following directions given by the instructor of the target language is the fastest and least stressful way of acquiring and understing of it. This way the students' anxiety is largely reduced. Bruna