TBL Task-Based Language Teaching

What's TBL?
1. Students learn through task completion
2. Focus on meaning rather than form
3. Use of real world tasks
  1. Learners solve problems
4. Practical and fucntional use of L2 (Zúñiga, 2016)
5. It promotes integration of skills (Zúñiga, 2016)
Task
1. Collaborative work
2. Use the language to complete the task
3. It has a gap (information, reasoning, and opinion)
4. Non-linguistic outome
5. Use of relaia
6. Extensive reading can be used
7. Very close to the real world
Theory
1. There are a number of authors that support TBL
  1. Nunan (1999): Students use all four skills to complete the task. Students understand, manipulate, produce or interact in the classroom
  2. Kurniasih (2011): TBL focuses on authentic learning and enhances the usage of language
  3. Richards and Rodgers (2001): TBL pormotes the creation of tasks that suit needs of learners
  4. Ellis (2009): In TBL students are expected to conduct creative actvities, infer meaning and communicate well their ideas
  5. Li (1998): TBL facilitates language learning. Learners are the center of language process. Promotes higher proficency levels
Advantages
1. Learners must use the target language to complete the task
  1. Different grammatical structures are used
    1. It encourages collaborative work
      1. Authentic material is used
        Learners focus on more than one aspect of the language
        Learning is meaningful for students
Drawbacks
1. Teachers must be careful when selecting material
  1. Motivation of learners and willingness to work in pairs or groups

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