For decades, the "present-practice-produce" (PPP) model has dominated grammar instruction. However, a persistent gap remains between what learners know about grammar (explicit knowledge) and what they can use in spontaneous speech (implicit knowledge). This gap is particularly evident in listening comprehension, where contracted forms, ellipsis, and connected speech obscure familiar structures, and in speaking, where processing time pressures lead to breakdowns.
Conventional grammar exercises (gap-fills, sentence transformations) fail to prepare learners for the phonological and syntactic demands of natural conversation. where contracted forms
The Grammar Launch model rests on three pillars: and connected speech obscure familiar structures
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