What are the key features of the Total Physical Response method?


1) the teacher directs and students «act» in response

2) the students' native language can be used to give instructions when necessary, to help a student improve his or her pronunciation

3) emphasizes vocabulary acquisition through exposure to its use in situations, drills students in the use of grammatical sentence patterns

4) students can improve their listening ability, sometimes teacher use tape and language lab, to hear dialogue from it

5) the teacher presents a reading text which contains some passages