Language Teaching Method

The video is taken on a classroom in the United States of America, with students come from many different countries around the world and an English native speaker as a teacher comes from US. It is an EFL class since the members of the class come from many countries that use English as a foreign language; such as Indonesia, Japan, China, and many more. The topic of the video is about Language Teaching Method, namely Comprehension Approach or well-known as TPR (Total Physical Response). The objective of the class is to make the students able to learn English easily by using fun learning method. In addition, according to Larsen-Freeman (2000) TPR was developed in order to reduce the stress people feel when studying foreign languages and thereby

At the first time she does the commands together with the students. Then she has all of the students to do the commands together without her. When the students have understood how to perform a single command, the teacher strings two commands together with the word ‘then’ and asks the students to do the actions.

Then the teacher involves the students in telling the commands. She commands individual students to tell other individuals to do one of the cleaning actions. The student commands someone sitting next to him or behind him to do the actions.

After that, the teacher demonstrates the meaning of ‘quickly’ and ‘carefully’. She involves these words in the action commands. The teacher commands the students to do one action first quickly, then carefully. After the students able to differenciate how quickly and carefully works, the teacher gives two and three commands by adding quickly or carefully on the command at a time. The more commands given, the more confused the students become. That makes the teacher decided to work with small groups and give them two and three command sequences until they understand and able to perform the action

They are very responsive to the teacher’s commands and they do the commands happily and correctly. It shows us that the students’ motivation in learning English by using this method is very high.

TPR method is very effective to be applied in teaching English. It is stated by Larsen-Freeman in the end of the video that language learning is more effective when it is fun. This teaching method is indeed fun and effective in the lesson. Furthermore, TPR method is also use body movements as the main idea of teaching process. These body movements give the students imagination about what the meaning of the words are, eventhough at first they do not know exactly what the words about. In addition, the body movements are also help the students to memorize the words easily.

Generally, I can see from the video that the class is organized well. The teacher can explain the material well to the students, and the students are able to catch the material correctly. The method that is applied in the class; TPR method, is very good and very effective to help the students learning English. The successful of this method is shown by students’ excitement and their fast understanding toward the vocabulary and their capability in practice the commands