Yadira Cano Gómez Liliana Morales Melendez TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE TPR was developed by James Asher, is a language teaching method built around the coordination of speech and action; it attempts to teach language through physical (motor) activity. APPROACH DESIGN PROCEDURE TPR reflects a grammar-based view of language. Asher views the verb in the imperative as the central linguistic motif around which language use and learning are organized. Retracing can be done verbally and in association with motor activity. Ashes elaborated a theory with these hypotheses: The bio-program. There exists a specific innate bio-program for language learning which defines an optimal pat for first and second language development. The brain lateralization. It defines different learning functions in the left an...
