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Date Posted: 20:07:09 07/03/03 Thu
Author: Ozana
Subject: task 9

Task 9 - Task-based approach

Explain what a task-based approach is.

Task-based approach represent a particular realization of communicative language teaching. It presents learners with carefully graded activities or 'tasks' in order to develop their communicative competence. In another words, it is more concentrated on the task than on language. As the tasks become more complex, so they require a more developed set of communicative skills. A communicative syllabus should, according to this approach, be constructed according to the difficulty of the tasks required of the learner at different stages in a course. A task-based syllabus is also sometimes referred to as a procedural syllabus.
Instead of beginning the design process with lists of grammatical, functional-notional, and other items, the designer conducts a needs analysis which yields a list of the target tasks that the targeted learners will need to carry out in the ‘real-world’ outside the classroom. Having specified target and pedagogical tasks, the syllabus designer analyzes these in order to identify the knowledge and skills that the learner will need to have in order to carry out the tasks. The next step is to sequence and integrate the tasks with enabling exercises designed to develop the requisite knowledge and skills. These tasks will have non-language related outcomes, as well as language related ones.

Describe its main characteristics.

1- Select Real-world or target task.
2- Create pedagogical tasks.
3- Identify enabling skills: create communicative activities and language exercises
4- Sequence and integrate pedagogical tasks, communicative activities and language exercises
5- Emphasizes the learner's ability to use the language appropriately in specific situations.




References:

http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/elke/recpast/taskbased.html
http://www.tesolgreece.com/dinou01.html
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/syllabusdesign.html




Ozana A.A.

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