Cluster/Word Web 1 - TASK BASED INSTRUCTION

Flowchart nodes

• Task-Based Instruction

• Task is an activity to achieve a goal.

• How does it work?

• Pre-Task

• Teacher introduces topic and tasks

• Task Cycle

• Task

• Students carry out the task in pairs or groups.

• Planning

• Students plan how to report on task outcome.

• Report

• Students compare or report to class.

• Language Focus

• Students discuss specific features

• Analysis

• Practice

• Teacher conducts practice

• Principals of TBI

• Asking students to do meaningful tasks

• Communicative goal

• Student centered

• Inductive learning

• Cooperative learning

• Characteristics of the TBI

• Focus on meaning rather than form.

• Activities that engage students.

• Involves 4 skills.

• Has the potential to re-cycle language knowledge.

• Aligns with theoretical understandings of the processes of language learning.

• Task+In+The+Classroom (binary/octet-stream)

• Tbi (binary/octet-stream)