Foreign Language Education in the 21st Century

Dimensions of Task-based Language Learning and Teaching

November 20, 2008 · 2 Comments

posted by Jürgen Kurtz, Karlsruhe University of Education, Germany

- task-based instruction
- task-based learning
- task-based language learning
- task-based language education
- task-based language learning and teaching
- task-based, task-oriented, task-supported, task-driven
- task design, task complexity, task sequencing, task cycle
- focus on form, focus on message, role of the mother tongue
- target tasks, pedagogical tasks, rehearsal tasks, activation tasks
- accuracy, fluency, complexity, appropriateness
- projects, tasks, activities, exercises
- task performance and assessment

Are you familiar with current research on task-based language learning and teaching? If not, here are a few presentations that give you an idea of what it is about:

David Nunan: Task-based language teaching: from theory to classroom practice

Kris Van den Branden: Task-based language education: from theory to practice .. and back again

Rod Ellis: Task-based language teaching: sorting out the misunderstandings

Paul Knight: Task-based learning: myth or reality?

Greg Ogilvie & Bill Dunn: Taking teacher education to task

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2 responses so far ↓

  • RAlf Gießler // January 16, 2009 at 2:34 pm | Reply

    Dear Mr Kurtz,
    thanks for compiling this page with PPTs on TBLT. They are well worth a read – and even more.
    Thanks again!

  • Task-Based Learning « Me, Technology, and Language Teaching // January 21, 2009 at 9:52 pm | Reply

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