Archive for April, 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...
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 [...]
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 before practice and in the end of this activity the outcome [...]
