Total Physical Response (TPR), an approach to teach imperatives to learners of foreign language was developed by James Asher in 1965. It promotes learning language in a less stressful ways. This research aims to study the effectiveness of TPR approach in helping slow young learners in acquiring English as a second language. This study adopted a pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental design, a quantitative method. A purposive sampling method is used and 48 Year 2 pupils who are listed as the low achievers are selected from a whole population of Year 2 pupils within South-west district in Penang. The pupils are assigned to appropriate group, experiment and control. A test item is built based on the specification and requirement of selected unit of the textbook. An independent samples t-test are conducted using SPSS 20.0 to test the hypotheses built. The test indicates a significant effect between TPR approach and language acquisition. The test also shows that TPR helps to close the gap between the experiment group and the control group.