Total Physical Response

Hi everyone! Today I let this table of  TPR method, which includes the main elements of this teaching method. I think it´s easy to understand but let me know what do you think?

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TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE
BACKGROUND
Developed by James Asher, the TPR is a language teaching method built around the coordination of speech and action; it attempts to teach language through physical activity. Asher mentions the role of affective factors in language that involves gamelike movements which reduces learner stress and facilitates learning.
APPROACH
He views the verb in imperative, as the central linguistic motif around which language use and learning are organized. Asher sees a stimulus-response view as providing the learning theory underlying language teaching pedagogy. Asher elaborated an account of what he feels facilitates foreign language learning:
I.     THE BIO-PROGRAM	·         Asher’s Total Physical Response is a Natural Method. ·         First and second language learning are parallel processes. ·         Children develop listening competence before they develop the ability to speak  ·         Children’s ability in listening comprehension is acquired because they required to respond to spoken language. ·         Listening should be accompanied by physical movement.
II.   BRAIN LATERALIZATION	·         Asher holds that the child language learner acquires language through motor movement. ·         Right-hemisphere activities must occur before the left-hemisphere can process language for production. ·         When a sufficient amount of right-hemisphere learning has taken place, the left hemisphere will be triggered to produce language and to initiate other.
III. REDUCTION OF STRESS	·         First language acquisition takes place in a stress-free environment.            The key to stress-free learning is to tap into the natural bio-program for language development. ·         Recapture the relaxed and pleasurable experiences as in the first language learning. ·         The learner should be liberated from self-conscious and stressful situations.
DESIGN: OBJECTIVES, SYLLABUS, LEARNING ACTIVITIES, ROLES OF LEANERS, TEACHERS, AND MATERIALS
OBJECTIVES are to teach oral proficiency at a beginning level. The ultimate aim is to teach basic speaking skills. Specific instructional objectives are not elaborated, these will depend on the particular needs of the learners. It uses action-based drills in the imperative form. SYLLABUS can be inferred from an analysis of the exercise types employed in TPR classes. The use of a sentence-based syllabus, with grammatical and lexical criteria being primary in selecting teaching items. Grammar is thus taught inductively. LEARNERS ROLES are listener and performer. They listen attentively and respond physically to commands given by the teacher. TEACHER plays an active and direct role. He decides what to teach, presents the new material, selects supporting material for classroom use, also allow speaking abilities to develop in learners’ own natural pace.
PROCEDURE
Asher provides a lesson-by-lesson account, the procedures used in the TPR are:          ·         Review: warm up          ·         New commands:          ·         Vocabulary          ·         Asking simple questions          ·         Role reversal          ·         Reading and writing
CONCLUSION
Total Physical Response was popular in the 1970s and 1980s because emphasize the role of comprehension in second language acquisition. Comprehensible input and reduction of stress are the keys to successful language acquisition.