Roles of Teacher in Total Physical Response
The teacher plays an acted and erect role in Total
physical response. “The instructor is the director of a stage play in which the
students are the actors”. It is the teacher who decides what to teach, who
models and presents the new materials, and who sleets supporting materials for
classroom use. The teacher is encouraged to smoothly and predictably.
The teacher has the responsibility of providing the
best kind of exposure to language so that the learner can internalize the basic
rules of the target language. Thus the teacher controls the language input the
learners receive, providing the raw material for the “cognitive map” that the
learners will construct in their own minds. The teacher should also allow
speaking abilities to develop in learners at the learners’ own natural pace.
In giving feedback to learners, the teacher should
follow the example of parents giving feedback to their children. At first,
parents correct very little, but as the child grows older, parents are said to
tolerate fewer mistakes in speech. Similarly teachers should refrain from too
much correction in the early stages and should not interrupt to correct errors,
since this will inhibit learners. As time goes on, however, more teacher
intervention is expected, as the learners’ speech becomes “fine tuned”
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