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.

Keywords: early childhood; TPR Method; vocabulary teaching; Kinect technique 

Contents

Abstract

摘  要

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