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FENG Shan-shan
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2017.01.006
Total Physical Response (TPR) method put forward by American psychology professor Asher advocates linking language and behavior, teaching the foreign language through body movements, and emphasizing teaching in real situations. Based on TPR method, this paper uses empirical research, literature reference, and questionnaire survey to explore problems of teachers and pupils in the traditional English teaching classroom. Compared to the traditional teaching method, TPR method in primary school English classroom greatly improves both teachers and students whether in teaching or in learning. In this research, 60 pupils from Class 3 and Class 4 in Qingtong Primary School in Huzhou City are taken as subjects, who are taught respectively by TPR method and the traditional teaching method. By contrast, the paper pinpoints advantages of TPR method and disadvantages of the traditional teaching method; by interviewing questionnaire and observation, it analyzes problems existing in English teaching from the perspectives of teachers and pupils and proposes some advice based on TPR method, meantime, stresses the combination of TPR method and other teaching methods according to different teaching situations and teaching objectives, in order to enhance the efficiency of teachers’ teaching and pupils’ learning in primary English teaching.
TPR method, teachers’ teaching in primary school, empirical study
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