ENTRY 53 Presentation techniques: PPP and Task-Based Learning

PPP and Task-Based Learning
by Enrique Ram GONZALEZ - Monday, 15 September 2008, 07:43 PM

Every day, we make many decisions in our classrooms about language teaching/learning processes. These include decisions about
which activities our learners might possibly enjoy, which are most effective, and which would provide learners with skills that they could use for academic and communicative purposes. Ppp or task-based learning, what can I do to increase the level of my students.In the meantime let us discuss about these methods.
By contrast, the PPP model of language teaching ('presentation, practice,performance') is based on the assumption that a language is best presented to learners as a syllabus of structures, and that through controlled practice a fluent and accurate performance of the'structure of the day' can be achieved. Errors are evidence of poor learning, requiring more PPP treatment.
According to what I have read ,the danger in a
task-based approach to teaching is that learners might be encouraged to prioritize a focus on meaning over a focus on form, and thus be led to use fluent but unchallenging or inaccurate language. Because language does not have to be well-formed in order to be meaningful.
As far as I know,the task-based approach to language teaching has evolved in response to a better understanding of the way languages are learnt. Traditionally,language learning has been regarded as aprocess of mastering a succession of steps, each one building on the one before. Teachers present the target language in rea,starting with the easy parts and gradually moving towards the harder parts. Learners must master each part and incorporate it into their knowledgeof the
target language.