Ria, a teacher of Class II, is presenting language items in her instructions and the learners are doing exactly as she is telling them to do. What is she practising?
Total physical response is a method of teaching or vocabulary concepts by suing physical movement to react to verbal input. The process mimics the way that infants learn their first language and it reduces student inhibitions and lowers stress. The audio-lingual method is a style of teaching used in teaching foreign languages. It is based on behaviourist theory which postulates that certain traits of living things and in this case humans, could be trained through a system of reinforcement. Communicative language teaching is an approach to language teaching that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of study.