USING STORYTELLING AS A PRACTICAL APPROACH IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Teaching English, especially for children who are in primary schools should be enjoyable, interesting, repetitive, and understandable. In doing so, there should be appropriated methods for teaching English to them. One of the alternative methods is that can be applied in the classroom is called Total Physical Response. TPR is one of the English teaching approaches and methods developed by Dr. James Asher (1977). This method attempts to center the attention to encouraging learners to listen and respond to the spoken target language commands of their teachers. TPR is a language teaching methods build around the coordination of speech and action. It attempts to teach language through physical activity. This method tries to introduce some language skills or components in an action in which a teacher serves three roles: an order taker, a model provider, and an action monitor in which learners serves as models and action performers while they feel ready to speak out. Keywords: Teaching English, primary schools, TPR, James Asher