Learners are totally involved in TPR activities because they are allowed to concentrate on one thing
only: they act out what they've heard. There is no pressure on them to speak the foreign language
yet. This is with good reason. Before any learner can start to speak a foreign language spontaneously
and creatively he or she must feel the inner readiness to do so. When learners are ready they feel that
the words of the language - sound and meaning integrated and combined into larger utterances -
spring from within themselves. This inner readiness will develop gradually but inevitably with prolonged
exposure to the sound of understood language and an active involvement in its meaning. TPR
has proved to be an effective learning strategy in this respect.