Presentation Practice and Production

 Hello everyone!

 Welcome back to the last entry of this register! Today we are going to discuss  what we studied in our last class: Presentation Practice and Production.

This are the stages of a class. In the first stage which is presentation, the teacher takes the most time to explain. In this stage, students understand concepts. This stage is mostly for  teachers, they have to be resourceful and do what they have to do to explain and make students understand.

They can use replicas, realia, images, among others to teach vocabulary, they sometimes go straight to the point (deductively) or by letting students discover in contexts or practicing conversations  (inductively) in the case of grammatical topics.

Then, we have our second stage, which is “Practice”. Students rehearse in this stage. The interaction goes in both ways students-teacher teacher-students but students are the ones practicing, while teachers can be walking around providing just the necessary help and monitoring.

We have two types of practice. Controlled practice and free practice. In the first one, there is no chance or little chance for mistakes. Teachers have to make sure they include one or two controlled activities in their practice time prior to moving to the second way of practice, which is free practice. Free practice is like level two for students to rehearse what the teacher explained in the presentation stage. Students have more freedom to play with the language and they kind of start from scratch, with less or no prompters at all.

In the last stage, which is production, students produce. It’s student’s time and teachers have to be careful they allow enough time for this stage. It actually has to be the most time consuming in a lesson plan. Because up to this point, students should be able to show authentic outcome, performing real life tasks such as role plays, a letter, an essay a drama, presentation, etc.