THE BENEFITS OF TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE IN TEACHING ENGLISH

Abstract

Teaching English to the primary school students is not an easy task since it requires a lot of creativity. According to Harmer, young learners learn differently from older learners, adolescents, and adults. They easily get bored, losing interest after ten minutes or so. Their world is still full of enjoyable activities. If English is taught interestingly, it will motivate them to learn it better. According to child psychology, children‘s language ability is developed through practical application; thus, the acquisition of language should be nature and direct. Brown (2001) states that people speak first instead of both reading and writing. In the classroom, speaking is used twice as often as listening and the most often used skill.