The Application of Total Physical Response Method in Early Childhood English Vocabulary Teaching Abstract Research has shown that the Total Physical Response (TPR Method) is an efficient method and widely used in today’s language vocabulary teaching, however, it may has its limitations. This thesis aims to validate the TPR method is efficient in early childhood English vocabulary teaching and meanwhile, find some proper ways to let the TPR Method keep up with the development of times. There are two experiments and one questionnaire designed to support this idea.47898
Keywords: early childhood; TPR Method; vocabulary teaching; Kinect technique
摘要研究表明，全身反应法是一种有效的、被广泛运用于当今语言词汇教学的教学方法。然而，这其中也有它的局限性。本文主要目的是证明全身反应法在早期儿童英语词汇教学中是有效的。同时，寻找一些合适的方法，让全身反应法跟随时代的发展。为了支持以上观点，本文包含了两个实验和一个问卷调查。
关键词：早期儿童，全身反应法，词汇教学，体感技术
Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. Literature Review 2
2.1 Early Childhood 2
2.1.1 Definition 2
2.1.2 Characteristics of the children 2
2.1.3 Physical development 3
2.2 Total Physical Response Method 3
2.2.1 Definition 3
2.2.2 Principles for teaching in TPR Method 3
2.2.3 Features of TPR Method 4
2.3 Current Situation in Vocabulary Teaching 4
3. Methodology 5
3.1 Experiment 5
3.1.1 Experiment 1 5
3.1.2 Experiment 2 6
3.2 Questionnaire 7
4. Results and Discussion 9
4.1 The results of experiment 1 9
4.2 The results of experiment 2 10
4.3 The results of the questionnaire 11
4.4 Discussion 12
5. Conclusion 13
References 14
Appendix 15
1. Introduction
In this era of rapid development, science and technology gradually become an important part of our lives. Meanwhile, foreign languages -- especially English, are becoming more and more useful, in many fields, such as international affairs, culture communication, researches of particular field and so on. People tend to learn English to let themselves equip their bodies with a kind of skill. The central issue for us is to find an efficient way to learn it.
As is quire rightly maintained by Diane Holt-Reynolds in What does the teacher do? Constructivist pedagogies and prospective teachers' beliefs about the role of a teacher, “Sfard (1998) notes the emergence of participation metaphors in the discourse we currently use for talking about teaching and learning. Participation metaphors subtly equate learning with activity and with doing. They suggest to us that students who are actively doing things in classrooms are learning while students who are passive in classrooms are not learning.”(Diane Holt-Reynolds, 2000) So that’s why we as pre-service teachers have to learn how to actively engage students' participation and then use that participation as a context within which to do this thing we call “teaching”. The teachers’ role is to teach students in an efficient way, so that teachers have to find some suitable ways to teach the students. And I mainly discuss about the education of foreign language in early childhood period. 全身反应法在早期儿童英语词汇教学中的运用:http://www.751com.cn/guanli/lunwen_50183.html