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Date Posted: 21:52:12 07/02/03 Wed
Author: Carolina Rosa Pansini
Subject: Task 9

TASK 9
NAME: Carolina Rosa Pansini

EXPLAIN WHAT A TASK-BASED APPROACH IS. DESCRIBE ITS MAIN CHARACTERISTICS.

Task-based approach is when the lesson is organized around tasks, rather than in terms of grammar or vocabulary. Instead of a language structure, students are presented with a task they have to perform or a problem they have to solve. For example: After a class performs some pre-task activities, which involve questions and vocabulary checking (e.g. What is this? It’s a library.), they ask and answer questions to solve a problem such as finding information, e.g. When does the library open? Although the present simple may frequently be used in such an activity, the focus of the lesson is the task, not the structure. So, students are given a task to perform and only when the task has been completed does the teacher discuss the language that was used, making corrections and adjustments.

Normally, Task-based approach follows one system developed by Skehan in order to orient teachers with their decision-making about task difficulty. It is three-phase approach: pre-task, during-task and post-task.

Pre-task stage: In this stage, teachers will introduce the topic and the students will do a similar task so that the task requirements are made clear.

During-task stage: the students perform the task in pairs or small groups while teacher just observes from a distance. So students plan how they will tell the rest of the class what they did and how it went, and they then report orally or in writing what has happened.

Post-task: This is the stage of the pedagogic goals. Because the students will have the opportunity to focus on language itself and “it may lead learners to switch attention repeatedly between accuracy and restructuring and fluency” (Skehan 1996:27). It will help students in their language improvement.

Task-based lesson must have clear explanations and guidelines in order to make the students feel confident on how to perform the task. In task-based activity, students always work in pair or group work.

It has been said that task-based approach is a very effective way of learning a language. Because it provides a purpose for the use and learning of a language, while others approaches just focus on language items for their own sake.

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