A crticial review of the Presentation-Practice-Production Model (PPP) in Foreign Language Teaching
1 Introduction
The Presentation-Practice-Production model of activity sequencing (PPP) isthe traditional activity sequencing pattern on which many Foreign LanguageTeaching (FLT) course books have relied, and its presence can still beappreciated today. Accordingly, Cook (2008) even identifies this pattern asthe major distinctive trait of the “mainstream EFL style”, which has been invogue for the last thirty years or even longer.The three Ps correspond, in this order, to
presentation
(P1),
practice
(P2)and
production
(P3). Hence the shortest and clearest definition of this modelemerges as, “an approach to teaching language items which follows asequence of presentation of the item, practice of the item and thenproduction (i.e. use) of the item” (Tomlinson, 2011a: xv). This procedure isalso called the “school model” by Sánchez (1993, 2001, 2004)