TEFL Teaching - Total Physical Response (TPR)

Total physical response is a language teaching method developed by James Asher, a professor emeritus of psychology at San José State University. It is based on the coordination of language and physical movement.

[irenematte]

The music is too loud to understand the person speaking

[bochra]

Great explanation thanks a lot for this video however the music was loud

[gasperpesek]

The neuroscience of left vs. right brain hemisphere functions as presented in this video seems incredibly outdated and/or misinterpreted ... it isn't just the right side of the brain that's responsible for motor responses; in fact, the left motor cortex controls the right side of the body and vice versa. I haven't read Dr. Asher's original book on TPR, so I'm not sure if he himself grounded his hypotheses in this misconception, but it's a profound and tenacious misunderstanding of how our brain actually works. For some reason, this particular (mis)interpretation of brain lateralization seems to be particularly popular among educators, meaning that there's some untapped potential for interdisciplinary cooperation between ELT and contemporary neuroscience.

[imaghriichrak]

Good job but it will be better to remove the song in the end of this video

[rasikagunawardhana]

It's a good video. But towards the end the music goes over the voice of the speaker. That's not positive.

[ireneadler]

The music is too low, I can still hear some of your words. Make it louder please.

[carotc]

This is a easy to understand. However, I cannot hear what is speaking at the end because of the too-loud background music. :(

[HillaryHouston]

Man I love this video, the music comes close to ruining it.

[honeybeejourney]

Whew!!! I had to turn it off at 2:40 because the music became so loud!

[NancyLlewellyn]

I was going to have my Teaching Methodology students watch this, but the music at the end drowned out the soundtrack; not recommended.

[iqranaaz]

What was the need for that loud music in such an informative video?

[africarodriguez]

How would this work with adults? My 30 something students won´t jump or flap their arms to learn new words! Help!

[eryn]

Couldn't hear what you were saying over music.

[fatimarezgoune]

The music at the end got on ma nerves bro