English Didactics l: (DE) SUGGESTOPEDIA AND TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE (TPR) 🙋🙋🙋🙋

🙋🙋(DE) SUGGESTOPEDIA AND TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE (TPR) 🙋🙋

Hello everyone, here with a new blog of the week...To start this week on Tuesday we finish with the complementary methods.

And on Thursday we started with our expositions about the methods with dynamics that the classmates shared with us as the class was going on.

In the meantime I will tell you a little bit about what is (De) Suggestopedia and Total Physical Response (TPR).

It is a method of teaching a foreing languague in which students learn quicky by

feeling realex, interested, and positive.

(De) Suggestopedia

Origin of suggestopedia

* 1970s

* Yoga
* Physychology

Exercise in class with classical music

We did this activity while listening to classical and baroque music, it was too interesting for me.

Suggestopedia, a portmanteau of "suggestion" and "pedagogy" is a teaching method used to learn foreign languages developed by the Bulgarian psychiatrist Georgi Lozanov.

Suggestopedia asserts that the physical surroundings and atmosphere of classroom are vital factors in making sure that "students feel comfortable and confident". Suggestopedia asserts that teachers should not act in a directive way. For example, teachers should act as partners to their students, participating in activities such as games and songs "naturally" and "genuinely".

Total Physical Response

It is simply a method through physical activity.

Based on the teaching of its creator, James Asher, the more often the memory connection is made, the stronger the memory association will be and the more likely it will be remembered.

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. In TPR, instructors give commands to students in the target language with body movements, and students respond with whole-body actions. Total Physical Response is often used alongside other methods and techniques. It is popular with beginners and with young learners, although it can be used with students of all levels and all age groups.

Asher developed TPR as a result of his experiences observing young children learning their first language. He noticed that interactions between parents and children often took the form of speech from the parent followed by a physical response from the child. Asher made three hypotheses based on his observations: first, that language is learned primarily by listening; second, that language learning must engage the right hemisphere of the brain; and third, that learning language should not involve any stress. The method is an example of the comprehension approach to language teaching. 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. TPR is a valuable way to learn vocabulary, especially idiomatic terms, e.g., phrasal verbs.

Here some examples: