TBL Task-Based Language Teaching

TBL Task-Based Language Teaching

1. What's TBL?

   • Students learn through task completion
   • Focus on meaning rather than form
   • Use of real world tasks
     • Learners solve problems
   • Practical and fucntional use of L2 (Zúñiga, 2016)
   • It promotes integration of skills (Zúñiga, 2016)

2. Task

   • Collaborative work
   • Use the language to complete the task
   • It has a gap (information, reasoning, and opinion)
   • Non-linguistic outome
   • Use of relaia
   • Extensive reading can be used
   • Very close to the real world

3. Theory

   • There are a number of authors that support TBL
     • Nunan (1999): Students use all four skills to complete the task. Students understand, manipulate, produce or interact in the classroom
     • Kurniasih (2011): TBL focuses on authentic learning and enhances the usage of language
     • Richards and Rodgers (2001): TBL pormotes the creation of tasks that suit needs of learners
     • Ellis (2009): In TBL students are expected to conduct creative actvities, infer meaning and communicate well their ideas
     • Li (1998): TBL facilitates language learning. Learners are the center of language process. Promotes higher proficency levels

4. Advantages

   • Learners must use the target language to complete the task
     • Different grammatical structures are used
       • It encourages collaborative work
         • Authentic material is used
           • Learners focus on more than one aspect of the language
             • Learning is meaningful for students

5. Drawbacks

   • Teachers must be careful when selecting material
     • Motivation of learners and willingness to work in pairs or groups

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