The Importance Of Total Physical Response In The Classroom

I used to teach at a private language center and mainly handled young leaners classroom. In particular, my teaching context consists of twenty- two students who are in the age of ten. The common characteristics of my students is overactive so that I have to choose the method, which can run by their energy. In addition, they are in the golden age of acquiring the target language, hence they should be presented by the natural way. I believe that teaching English for young leaners is not only introduce the form and meaning in format ways, but also show them how language is actually used in real situation. The ideas above are also the reason why choosing methodology in teaching should be taken in careful consideration. Through my experience of …show more content…
Young leaners are very active, dynamic in classroom. In fact, I find it impossible to keep them learning on traditional method during the lesson (Grammar translation, Direct method, Audio – lingual). Therefore, I apply Total physical respond for my kid class since it meets my leaners’ interests, also positively effects on teaching. Total physical response endows with the unique characteristics to reduce learners’ stress and anxiety, create an interesting atmosphere. Anxiety is a heavy barrier preventing students from classroom activities; as a result, the learning process is less effective in both cases of young learners and adults. Moreover, my context is young learners who are overactive. In the traditional method when they are kept seating and listening to teacher instruction, they continuously joking, kidding and annoying the other students. Hence, the teacher have to spend time to manage the classroom, as a result, the flow of the teaching process interrupt. TRP with its sequence can lead students energy to learn a target language thank to continuous movement. Besides, it also make students think that they are playing a game. In addition, the sequence is used when implementing Total physical response can promote the language acquisition process to help student learn target vocabulary naturally. As a natural method, leaners train their listening competence before speaking skills. Through listening and observing, students expose to the compressible input presented by teacher actions. Next, they practice repeatedly, which turn input into intake. In the last stage – producing output, they perform what they have learn independently, or they are accepted to produce latter because there is no forcing to speak in the Total physical