TPR——一种值得推广的新型外语教学法

TPR——A New Teaching Method for Foreign Languages Worth Spreading

本文介绍了一种国外流行的英语教学法———纯身体教学法,简称TPR。该方法创建于60年代,旨在通过身体的活动来进行语言教学,是一种建立在语言和行动和谐一致基础之上的快速语言教学法。

TPR,a concept in language learning,was conceived by a psychologist in the late 1960s.TPR or Total Physical Response is modeled after how we learn our mother tongue.During the first years of language acquisition,the child simply listens to teacher′s speech.As speech patterns become more familiar,a child can gradually repeat or respond with simple words or patterns that will eventually develop into perfect speech.