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Date Posted: 14:01:08 07/02/03 Wed
Author: Maria Juliana de Souza
Subject: Task # 9

Task based approach is based in giving appropriate and contextualized tasks to reach the goal of learning. It is concerned to communicative competence and focus on ‘doing’, on concrete activities to achieve knowledge. Task-based activities are a means of integrating learning to ‘real’ activities; it is focused on communicative fluency. Tasks are supposed to be appropriated to the language development at that moment of the students’ life, concerning to the level of knowledge.
According to Stone, LeeAnn (1991) There are three main criteria for task-based activities.
First, they have a goal or purpose that requires the use of the target language, but it is not centered on that language.
Second, it involves making use of the unique features of a language lab to create a learning environment that cannot be recreated in the regular classroom.
Third, it involves the student in a way that intrinsically motivates, lowers of the affective filter, and creates a desire to excel. In this way, the language must be something that is desired.
The role of teacher in Rivers (1987) opinion is to create and stimulate student’s creation and situations of interaction, in which students can use for actual communication what they have been learning in a more formal fashion.
In my opinion, these tasks-based activities are very important to students’ success as learners and I guess it is already proved that students must have concrete ideas of what they are doing and learning, because an example worth a million words.

Reference:
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed343407.html The task-based approach http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/elke/recpast/taskbased.html

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