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Date Posted: 15:46:34 07/04/03 Fri
Author: Patrícia de Almeida Neri
Subject: Task 9

Explain what a task-based approach is. Describe its main characteristics.
According to the source recommended by our moderator, task-based approach promotes tasks to students in order to develop their “communicative competence”, this means, learners “should be able to select a particular kind of language and should know when, where and with whom they
should use it”. It is an approach which students interact to complete a task, while they are worried about the task, they learn, the “ language systems will develop” (Skehan 1994:190). “The tasks must be challenging for the language learner ––not too difficult so that achieving meaning
predominates and not too simple as in this case nothing is being learned or developed”. The main characteristics of this approach are: the use of target language, but not “centered on that language”. The students would be exposed to situations which represents the real-world, such
as “taking part in a job interview, completing a credit card application, finding one’s way from a hotel to a subway station and checking into a hotel”. The language data promoted to learners can be a combination of “authentic” and “non-authentic”data. “Authentic data are samples of spoken or written language that have not been specifically written for the purposes of language
teaching. Non-authentic data are dialogues and reading passages that HAVE been specially written”. The information given to learners about the target culture, its language systems and the learning process can be deductively, provided by a teacher or a textbook an explicit information,
or inductively, when students analyze the examples and formulate the rules. Finally, learners should have opportunities to practice extensively and teachers should concentrate in the “success of task-based activities”.

Source
http://www.nuis.ac.jp/~hadley/publication/kosentbl/taskbased.htm
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/syllabusdesign.html
http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/elke/recpast/taskbased.html
http://simsim.rug.ac.be/staff/elke/recpast/communic.html#compet
http://www.tesolgreece.com/dinou01.html

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