TPR Approachを活用した英語授業の開発—小学校低学年に焦点をあてて—

抄録

The purposes of this paper are to use the Total Physical Response approach to teach English songs to first graders in an elementary school, and to examine how they understand the meaning of the words of the songs. The words of the English songs which we taught are familiar to all the children. We tried to have a fifteen-minute lesson in each class every day for about one month.

This research was carried out from October 27th to November 20th in 2020, and thirty-two first graders participated in the lessons. Its content was based on a meaning comprehension test in accordance with the English words of the songs used in the lessons. An analysis of the data by the paired two-way ANOVA method showed that there was a significant difference between the before and after results in the meaning comprehension of the students. In general, their meaning comprehension ability had improved after one-month of instruction. In particular, they understood the meaning of the words of the English songs with their actions through the Total Physical Response approach.

The Total Physical Response approach may be one way to teach English to children in the lower grades.