PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND TASK

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND TASK

1. Task

   • Anything that learners are given to do in the language classroom to further the process of language learning. (Burden and Williams)
   • Types
     • Information gap
       • Transfer of given information
     • Reasoning gap
       • Deriving some new information from given information
     • Opinion gap
       • Identifying and articulating ersonal information
   • It focuses on meaning
     • communicative task
       • • Encourage learners
         • Give learners flexibility
         • Involve learners with their personality
         • Challenging
       • • concerned with language display
         • Conformity oriented
         • Practice oriented
         • Embed language into materials
   • Humanism and Task
     • Stevick
       • Four types of alienation
         • Alineation of the learners from the material
         • From themselves
         • From the class
         • From the teacher
   • Considered the undisputed mainstay of communicative approaches to ELT

2. Task in a lesson: PPP

   • Presentation
     • New language is through elicitation.
   • Practice
     • Target language is practice in controlled contexts, usually oral
       • Through substitution drills
   • Production
     • Students are encouraged to use the target language in " free practice"

3. Process Approaches to earning and teaching

   • Breen (1984)
     • Process Syllabus
       • Any siyllabus is interpreted by teachers, learners and the teaching context
     • Process competence
       • Inter and intra- personal

4. Limited capacity process

   • Learnes have limited capacity for processing information
     • We cannot process many stimuli simultaneously
   • Language consists of a dual system

5. References: IEXPRO ANTHOLOGY Task- Based Project

   • Dania Lizeth López Gómez

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