Using Total Physical Response Story Telling (TPRS) As a Practical Approach in EFL Primary Schools

Teaching English, especially for children who are in primary schools should be enjoyable, interesting, repetitive, and understandable. In doing so, there should be appropriate methods for teaching English to them. One of the alternative methods is called Total Physical Response which can be applied in the classroom. TPR is one of the English teaching approaches and methods developed by Dr. James Asher (1977). This method attempts to center the attention of encouraging learners to listen and respond to the spoken target language commands of their teachers. TPR is a language teaching methods build around the coordination of speech and action; it attempts to teach language through physical activity. This method tries to introduce some language skills or components in an action in which a teacher serves three roles: an order taker, a model provider, and an action monitor in which learners serves as models and action performers while they feel ready to speak out.