AN IDEA OF TEACHING PAST TENSE INTERACTIVELY BY USING THREE P (PRESENTATION, PRACTICE AND PRODUCTION)

Abstract

The process of language learning is normally conducted in three stages. Those stages are presentation, practice and production. To create interactive atmosphere, teacher can provide some spaces of interaction in each stage. The spaces of interaction in every stage can be in the forms of lead in questions, inviting students opinions and questions, and discussing the solvation of the problems on the provided tasks. Through those forms of interactions, teacher can give opportunities for his students to practice their ability in speaking English. The opportunity for the students to speak English when they are learning English is considered as the main requirement for a learning meeting to be called an interactive learning process. Besides that, the article also reveals how teacher’s choice of handouts and innovation of the tasks of the handouts play very important role to create interactive learning approach. To prove how the idea of providing some spaces of the interaction in every stage can be conducted and how other supporting elements play significant role in assisting it, the discussion takes past tense material as an example. By reviewing the idea in this article, it is hoped that the teacher who needs a reference in teaching tense material interactively thugh three P can consider it as one of them.