The document discusses strategies for teaching English as a foreign language. It proposes explaining new content using a presentation-practice-performance (PPP) sequence. New vocabulary and grammar rules should be explicitly explained and modeled for students. Educators should use clear explanations, gestures, pictures and examples to demonstrate both the meaning and construction of new language elements for students before having them practice and perform.

1. Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador
Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas
Departamento de Idiomas Modernos
Programa de Inglés
Metodología de la Enseñanza del Inglés como Lengua Extranjera
Profesora: Nahir Aparicio
Teaching Strategies
Planing New Content
Autor; Antonio Machado
Caracas junio 2012

2. Teaching language Construction
as a deductive approach
• Students are given explanations and grammar rules
• Based on these explanations students make phrases and sentences using
the new language /vocabulary.

3. Explaining New Content Sequence
is usually a ppp-like
presentation
practice
perfom
Students -------------------------- --------------------------------------
perfom
well
Lead-in—Elicitation-Explanation-Accurate Reproduction-Immediate Creativity.
students
perfom
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4. Explaining Things
New Content
Need to demostrate both meaning and language construction
Explaning Meaning
the clearest way
• To show it
• To point to it
• For actions
use mime /gestures
facial expressions
pictures to explain situations and concepts
diagrams
time line
describe the meaning of word
vocabulary items
check questions
use fingers and hands

5. Explaining Language Construction
Modelling Sentences and Phrases
T model—Isolation– (Distorsion)—T Return to Isolated Model_T Model

6. Reference
Harmer, Jeremy . The practice of English language teaching. 2002