Timed Integrated Writing Task Practice (5/29)

There are two ways to teach speaking: PPP and AAA. PPP means presentation , practice, and production. AAA means awareness, appropriate, and autonomy. They are common, standard approach and used to train for teachers to teach speaking. PPP is controlled, but AAA is more free and uncontrolled. Both of them are vital for teaching speaking but difficult to practice.


In presentation, the first P of PPP, teachers teach language first and then functional grammar. They build a situation that involve the language, and use materials such as pictures and listening. From those materials, they form vocabulary. On the other hand, awareness, the first step in AAA, is for students' notice and understanding something. Teachers choose language for situation starting with real conversation or dialogue. Discourse marker and important expressions are picked in the real conversation in awareness step. However, in presentation, language is picked in the grammatical lexicon.


Practice, the second stage of PPP, is controlled-application involving drills, fills, and close test. This stage is for learners not to make errors and to practice a lot. On the contrary, in appropriation, the second A of AAA, teachers make formal term in many ways. Then, students put the language in controlled ways by doing such as drill, role-play, and drama. When we appropriate something, we make it our own. Likewise, in appropriation, students practice the language to make it their own in an uncontrolled way.


In production stage, which is the last step of PPP students produce the language using their more judgement more freely. Students produce relevant presentation of the key language. However, in autonomy, the last A of AAA, learners use the language so fast without artificial things or thinking time. Autonomy is developed by each learner. Teachers use natural environment for students to be autonomous.

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