1. Total Physical Response Reflection
Gabriela Quezada Cabezas
The total Physical or TPR approach is based on teaching language using body movements
in order to react verbal input. This approach will be helpful if we are teaching to children or
kinaesthetic students; moreover this will help us to develop an environment of motivation among
the students and they are going to feel more relax. This approach also helps to improve the long
term retention. But as it was already mentioned this approach is mainly focused on teaching
children, and we, as futures teacher-to-be, need to keep in mind that most students from
secondary school can feel embarrassed if we used this approach with them. In this approach we
as teachers are the directors of all students’ behaviour and through our activities and mimics we
can improve their intrinsic motivation on the class.
The best characteristic of this approach is that it helps us also to develop the four skills
(reading, writing, speaking and listening) and also the systems of language.