Archive for April, 2008

April 28th, 2008

A Brief History of Second Language Acquisition

As the title suggests, this free to download PDF file offers a brief but informative description of the history of second language acquisition…

April 25th, 2008

PPP for Dummies

The PPP Approach to Communicative Language TeachingPPP (or the ‘3Ps’) stands for Presentation, Practice and Production - a common approach and commonly taught on 4-week courses approach to communicative language teaching that works through the progression of three sequenced stages.
PRESENTATION
Presentation represents the introduction to a lesson, and necessarily requires the creation of a realistic (or realisticish) ’situation’ requiring the target language to […]

April 24th, 2008

Task-Based Learning for Dummies

Task-Based Learning: A Review
Written by Bilgen TOSUN
1. HISTORICAL POSITION OF TASK-BASED LEARNING
As Willis(1996) suggests before eighties the P.P.P. model of language teaching is the traditional way of learning- teaching activity. It is based on presentation […]