TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE AND AUDIO LINGUAL METHOD.
TOTAL, PHYSICAL RESPONSE AND AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD Total Physical Response is a language learning method that makes use of body movements with the acquisition of the new language. The Total Physical Response method mimics how children learn their first language. There is no expectation to produce the language at first; as a result, it takes the pressure off the learner. The focus shifts from producing the language to associating the language with words and actions and cementing the relationship between the two. A new learner finds it extremely difficult to understand leave alone to respond in a foreign language. This is because the teacher is only speaking in the foreign language that the learner hasn't mastered yet. For a young learner just starting to learn a language, it all seems like gibberish. Hence, Dr. James J. Asher, Ph.D. the creator of the Total Physical Response method suggests that the right hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for motor skills, imagination, ...