A Review of Total Physical Response
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https://doi.org/10.63313/LLCS.9016Keywords:
Total Physical Response, language teaching, language teaching methodAbstract
This thesis briefly introduces Total Physical Response (TPR), a language teaching method that is adopted widely. The thesis includes the introduction, theoretical basis of TPR as well as the summary of relevant studies about TPR at home and abroad. In the end, the author offers some comment on this method so that this teaching method can be utilized effectively to contribute to language teaching.
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