Advantages and Disadvantages of Total physical response
To make the students more active, the teacher tries to practice these activities with all students in the class, the teacher instructs them to take
their books, pens and bags. The teacher say “put your book in your bag” the students follow
her command. The teacher says “take out your book and put in front of your bag” the students response the teacher instruction. And the teacher
says “put your pen in your book” They do what the teacher said. The
students able to do what the teacher commands without any hesitations. In the end to know their understanding in prepositions of place, the
teacher gives the commands and the instructions, the teacher says faster.
The teacher says “put the pen in your book, stand up on the floor, and put the chair in front of
the table”. The students understood the three prepositions of place and the teacher is very satisfied that the students
mastered the prepositions of place. In the last activity, the teacher gives the post-test such as what they
has done before by using total Physical Response method to know the understanding in Preposition of Place through Total Physical Response
method.
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