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Date Posted: 19:52:49 07/04/03 Fri
Author: Simone Couto
Subject: Task 8

NINTH CLASS June 30th to July 4th

Task-based approach

Explain what a task-based approach is. Describe its main characteristics.

After years of analysis into the studies of the learning and teaching of a second language, many new approaches were developed, among them those that dealt with the task as being the key unit. A task is a type of activity and differentiates a lot from exercises. A task can be defined, in the educational sphere, as being:

one of a set of differentiated, sequenceable, problem-posing activities involving learners and teachers in some joint selection from a range of varied cognitive and communicative procedures applied to existing and new knowledge in the collective exploration and pursuance of foreseen or emergent goals within a social milieu (cited in Long and Crookes 1992:38).

Consequently, the task-based approach entails the learners taking part and learning through tasks. Through their avid and motivated participation in tasks provided by their teachers, they will collaborate to is completion, without being aware of how much they are enhancing and fixing their proficiency in the new language.

The main aim of the task-based approach is supplying enough bases for the students to become communicatively competent, i.e. to be able to communicate efficiently in the second language. In order to achieve this, this approach advocates the importance of giving learners meticulously graded tasks and exercises. This means that each new task will go one step further into the development of skills related to communication in the foreign language. Therefore, whatever is taught in class or planned should always have in mind the level of complexity that the tasks will be demanding each time, after all they will be of a higher and higher degree.

Nonetheless, unfortunately, this reviewing and reorganizing of the syllabus, in order to make it graded, is not a simple matter. In fact, it is considered one of the oldest issues in the foreign language realm to which a way out has still not yet been found. BIBLIOGRAPHY:

http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/elke/recpast/taskbased.html
http://www.tesolgreece.com/dinou01.html

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