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It is a language teaching method developed by James Asher. It is based on the coordination of language and physical movement. In this method teachers give commands to students in the target language, and students respond with whole-body actions. Asher saw that most of the interactions that young children experience with parents or other adults combine both verbal and physical aspects. The child responds physically to the speech of the parent, and the parent reinforces the child’s responses through further speech. Grammar is not taught explicitly, but can be learned from the language input. the ultimate goal of the method is to develop oral fluency. Asher sees developing listening comprehension skills as the most efficient way of developing spoken language skills.^[4]

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