TPR Children's English

Author: Gong Yafu et al.
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Publish Date: 1994-11-01
Features: This book is the main textbook for the television teaching program "TPR Children's English." It draws on the fundamental ideas of the "Total Physical Response" (TPR) developed by the renowned American psychologist James Asher, who dedicated 20 years of research to it. The book combines the psychological characteristics and learning conditions of Chinese children with many exercise methods from communicative language teaching. TPR teaching methods have been widely used in foreign countries for teaching second languages and foreign languages to young children and primary school students, but China currently does not have textbooks fully developed based on this approach. The TPR Children's English television teaching program, with its cleverly designed textbooks, vivid illustrations, and highly distinctive rhymes, songs, and chants, creates a lively and joyful language learning environment for students. Children express their understanding of auditory signals through various actions such as touching their noses, drawing little people, coloring, playing hopscotch, playing (dǒu shǒu juàn), and doing crafts, interacting with teachers, peers, and family members.