Ppp, Tbl And Clil

Differences and similarities between PPP, TBL and CLIL

Communicative language teaching (CLT) is an approach or series of approaches and models that explain how we can teach language in ameaningful way. The main characteristic is that we should teach the language in context. There are two versions of this approach. A weak version, connected to PPP (Presentation-Practice-Production), which seeslanguage as a series of products to be sequenced and a strong version, connected to TBL (Task-Based Learning), which considers tasks as an important part of syllabus design.
To begin with, PPP hasthree important stages. In the Presentation stage, the teacher sets the aims of the lesson and makes sure that students will learn language in a communicative environment. He/She explains the newlanguage, its meaning and form in a contextualized way. She/he also links the new form to what students already know. In the Practice stage, the teacher gives exercises that move from controlled (whichfocuses on accurate reproduction of the structure) to less controlled. For example, questions or sentences to complete. In this part of the lesson it is important to correct errors and mistakes or italways is when talking about PPP. Finally, in the Production stage, the students are engaged in using the language in a freerer way, using discussions, for example. The teacher doesn’t have to correcttoo much in this stage, but he/she could give feedback afterwards.
In addition, TBL presents three stages as well, but they consist of tasks. According to Ellis (2009) a task is “an activity thatfocuses on meaning, features some kind of information or opinion gap, asks students to rely on their own resources and has a clear outcome that exceeds the use of language”. In the pre-task stage, studentsare given a task (solving a problem, listing or sorting, sharing opinions) in which the teacher presents the task and students engage in it by reviewing previous knowledge. In the task stage, the...