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ess allows for a long period of listening and developingprehensionprior to production. Students respond to mands that require physical movement. TPR is primarily used by ESL/EALteachers,[1][2]although the method is used in teaching other languages as well.[3][4][5]The method became popular in the 1970s and attracted the attention or allegiance of some teachers, but it has not received generalized support from mainstream educators.[6]PremiseAccording to Asher, TPR is based on the premise that the human brain has a biological program for acquiring anynatural languageon earth including thesign languageof the deaf. The process is visible when we observe howinfantsinternalize their first language. It looks to the way that children learn their native language. Communication between parents and their children bines both verbal and physical aspects. The child responds physically to the speech of their parent. The responses of the child are in turn positively reinforced by the speech of the parent. For many months the child absorbs the language without being able to speak. It is during this period that the internalization and code breaking occurs. After this stage the child