CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

TEACHING METHODS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the main objective of the TPR?
A
Language learning is achieved by having to communicate real meaning.
B
The objective is to teach the second language through physical activity.
C
Curriculum is organized around themes and units to increase language and reading skills.
D
Interaction throught pair and group work.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The purpose of TPR is to create a brain link between speech and action to boost language and vocabulary learning.

Detailed explanation-2: -The main idea behind TPR is based upon the principle of establishing psychomotor associations to facilitate language learning. The teacher presents the language in the form of commands which are demonstrated and modeled by the teacher and fulfilled by the students, individually and/or in groups.

Detailed explanation-3: -Total Physical Response is a language-learning approach based on the relationship between language and its physical representation or execution. TPR emphasizes the use of physical activity for increasing meaningful learning opportunities and language retention.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thus language acquisition cannot easily be separated form reasoning, critical thinking, interpretation of a variety of text forms, awareness of genre and context, awareness of poetic and aesthetic language. The aims of LE include knowledge, skills, abilities to learn and existential competence.

Detailed explanation-5: -This method attempts to center attention to encouraging learners to listen and res-pond to the spoken target language commands of their teachers. In other words, TPR is a language teaching method built around the coordination of speech and action; it attempts to teach language through physical (motor) ac-tivity.

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