Editing Total physical response (section)

== Research ==

Asher conducted a large number of scientific studies to test and refine his hypotheses and the teaching practices in TPR. When testing children and adults learning Russian, Asher and Price found that the adults outperformed the children.{{sfn|Cook|2008|p=148}} TPR is one of the most thoroughly researched approaches in the field. All of the pertinent research is summarized in Asher's Learning Another Language Through Actions book. {{sfn|Asher|1996|}}

Research performed in Turkey in 2018 on TPR by Adnan Oflaz showed that using the method can significantly reduce anxiety in students. Over the course of Oflaz's research of using the TPR method for two hours a week over a six-week period, "those [students] whose anxiety levels were high and those who experienced anxiety very close to high level ... went down to medium level."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Oflaz|first=Adnan|date=2019|title=The foreign language anxiety in learning German and the effects of Total Physical Response method on students' speaking skill|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1212101.pdf|journal=Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies|volume=15|pages=70–82|doi=10.17263/jlls.547616|s2cid=150657465|via=ebscohost}}</ref> Oflaz also observed that the students were more willing to speak in German (which was the target language), that they didn't purposefully avoid situations in which they needed to speak in the target language, and that some students were even "eager to take turns to speak."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Oflaz|first=Adnan|date=2019|title=The Foreign Language Anxiety in Learning German and the Effects of Total Physical Response Method on Students' Speaking Skill|url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1212101|journal=Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies|language=en|volume=15|issue=1|pages=70–82|doi=10.17263/jlls.547616|issn=1305-578X|doi-access=free}}</ref>