Task-based language teaching (TBLT) centers around using authentic language in meaningful tasks, such as visiting a doctor or making a phone call. This approach emphasizes meaningful communication and places students at the core of the learning process.
These ‘real-life’, ‘target’ or ‘rehearsal’ tasks are chosen on the basis of learners’
needs outside the classroom, whether in the personal and public domains, or related to
more specific occupational or educational needs.
Inside the classroom.
Communicative pedagogic tasks aim to actively involve learners in meaningful communication, are relevant (here and now in the formal learning context), are challenging but feasible (with task manipulation where appropriate), and have identifiable (and possibly less immediately evident) outcomes.
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Students typically translate and use a lot of their L1 rather than the target language in completing the tasks.
Not all students are or will be motivated by TBLT
Everything is left to the teacher
There is no acquisition of new grammar or vocabulary features
communicative task is on successful task completion
Task
‘real-life’, ‘target’ or ‘rehearsal’ tasks
Pedagogic task
types of tasks
, interpreting a role in a play, taking part in a discussion, giving a presentation, planning a course of action, reading and replying to (an e-mail) message, etc
routine transactions
problem solving
skills based
creative
Tasks are a feature of everyday life in the personal, public, educational or occupational domains. Task accomplishment by an individual involves the strategic activation of specific competences in order to carry out a set of purposeful actions in a particular
domain with a clearly defined goal and a specific outcome.
Framework
way meanings are comprehended
focus on Meaning
TBLT
Task-based learning focuses on the use of authentic language through meaningful tasks such as visiting the doctor or a telephone call. This method encourages meaningful communication and is student-centred.
Students focus on a relationship that is comparable to real world activities
Assessment is primarily based on task outcome
TBLT is student-centered
The conveyance of some sort of meaning is central to this method
Students are encouraged to use language creatively and spontaneously through tasks and problem solving