REVIEWING THE PRINCIPLES
1. What are the goals of teachers who use TPR ?
Teachers who use TPR believe in the importance of having their students enjoy their experience in learning to communicate in a foreign language.
2. What is the role of the teacher ? What is the role of students ?
Initially, the teacher is the director of all student behavior.
3. What are some characteristic of the teaching/learning process ?
The first phase of a lesson is one of modeling. in the second phrase, these same students demonstrate that they can understand the commands by performing them alone.
4. What is the nature of student-teacher interaction ? What is the nature of student-student interaction ?
The teacher interacts with the whole group of students and with individual systems.
5. How are the feelings of students dealt with ?
One of the main reasons TPR was developed was to reduce the stress people feel when studying foreign languages.
6. How is language viewed ? How culture viewed ?
Just as with the acquisition of the native language, the oral modality is primarily.
7. What areas of language are emphasized ? what language skills are emphasized ?
Vocabulary and grammatical structures are emphasized over other language areas.
8. What is the role of students’ native language ?
TPR is usually introduced in the student’s native language.
9. How is evaluation accomplished ?
Teachers will know immediately whether or not students understand by observing their students’ actions.
10. How does the teacher respond to student errors ?
It is expected that students will make errors when they first begin speaking.
the students are imitators of her nonverbal model