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Analyze teacher role(s) in Total Physical Response.

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Total physical response (TPR) is a language teaching method developed by James Asher. It is based on the coordination of language and physical movement. In TPR, Teachers as instructors give commands to students in the target language with body movements, and students respond with whole-body actions. The method is an example of the comprehension approach to language teaching. The listening and responding (with actions) serves two purposes: It is a means of quickly recognizing meaning in the language being learned, and a means of passively learning the structure of the language itself. Grammar is not taught explicitly but can be learned from the language input. Besides, teachers as demonstrators because when teachers give sentences as instructions for actions, they first demonstrates these actions themselves ;then they choose members of the class to do them.

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