NAWAF ALHARTHI
Presentation, Practice and
Production (PPP)
Most teachers plan three phases in their lessons according to the
PPP model of Presentation, Practice and Production．
During Presentation, new
language is presented perhaps as a grammatical pattern or more frequently
within some familiar situations. During this presentation phase the
teacher is often very active and dominates the class doing more than 90 ％ of
the talking．
During Practice, the new
language item is identified, repeated and manipulated by the
students. Unless the teacher is using pair work or a language laboratory ，the
teacher also dominates this phase of the lesson occupying more than 50 ％of
the talking in class．
During Production, the
students attempt to use the new language in different contexts provided by the
teacher. The PPP model works well provided that your syllabus is based only on
giving students “thin slices” of language one slice at a time. The PPP model
does not work nearly so well when teaching more complex language patterns
beyond the sentence level or communicative language skills. Another basic
problem with PPP is that it is usually based on segments of the one hour-lesson.
In this way lessons are designed with a single focus.
Very interesting topic Nawaf, The term'' Thin slicing'' which is giving students a small amount of information about certain topic and making decisions very quickly, this can help the learners to make a quick decision on some life situations.
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