Task Based Teaching

TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING

What is A TASK?

VOCABULARY Read these words and

then with a partner practice their pronunciation.

CAT BOOK TELEVISION

WRITING

•  1. Think of a wonderful place you would like to visit.

•  2. Research about it.

•  3. Pay attention to verb tenses and prepositions.

•  4. Now, write a paragraph.

•  __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ .

ACCORDING TO DAVID NUNAN A pedagogical task is a piece of classroom

w o r k t h a t i n v o l v e s l e a r n e r s i n comprehending, manipulating, producing or interacting in the target language while their attention is focused on mobilizing their grammatical knowledge in order to express meaning and in which the intention is to convey meaning rather than to manipulate form. The task should also have a sense of completeness, being able to stand alone as a communicative act in its own right with a beginning, middle and end.

•  Meaning is primary. •  Learners are not given other people’s meaning to regurgitate. •  There is some sort of relationship to comparable real-world

activities. •  Task completion has some priority.

•  The assessment of the task is in terms of outcome.

KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF A TASK

TASK COMPONENTS

TASK

GOALS

INPUT

PROCEDURES

HANDS ON

TASKS

PRINCIPLES OF TBLT •  Scaffolding •  Task dependency •  Recycling •  Active Learning •  Integration •  Reproduction to creation •  Reflection

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