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Date Posted: 09:03:01 07/03/03 Thu
Author: Renata Del Rio
Subject: task 9

Task 9 - the task-based approach
The task based approach is a more useful and communicative way to have students use certain features of the language, avoiding lenghty explanations. Nunan mentions that a task is an activity where the students will have the opportunity to "carry out in the ‘real-world’ outside the classroom", that is, the learners are going to use the target language not to practice for practice's sake, but to achieve a real result.
Furthermore, according to Willis, there are three principles for material and task designing:
1)language as a meaning system
2)Exposure to the target language in use is vital
3)some focus on language form is desirable.
Basically, a task has the purpose of making the learner communicatively competent, as it aims to bring inside the real world. So, the language must be meaningful in real use. The facilitator should make the tasks as real as possible, by having the students listen to an authentic dialogue, for instance. by doing this, they will be exposed to language in use. Examples are when the purpose of the class is to teach directions. A dialogue can be used, so as the students get acquainted with the specific expressions, such as "make a right turn", "just around the corner", and so on. A good task for this kind of situation would include questions about the place the students are and how to get to another place. After all, the purpose of a task is to make students use language meaningfully and not practice for itself. At last, the students must know why they are doing that, and the "instrumental" part should be clarified. So, the facilitator needs to highlight some points, so as they know what is happening "behind the curtains" of language.
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/syllabusdesign.html
http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/00/feb/willis.html

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