PPP vs. task-based instruction

PPP Presentation: a new structure is presented, explained Practice: the students practise it in grammar exercises Production: the students produce it in communication

Perspectives A lesson plan? A set of procedures? A learning process? Probably all of these

Rejected by many because: Lack of emphasis on meaning and communication at the early stages Teachability hypothesis Too teacher-centred Too rigid

‘essentially a discredited, meaning-impoverished methodology’ Skehan: ‘essentially a discredited, meaning-impoverished methodology’

The alternative: task-based instruction ‘Instruction in which learners are given tasks to complete in the classroom makes the assumption that transacting tasks in this way will engage naturalistic acquisitional mechanisms, cause the underlying interlanguage system to be stretched and drive development forward.’

Discussion What would be your criticisms of the PPP approach? Of the task-based approach? A possible solution: focus on form.