Instructors in ESP (English for Specific Purposes) settings play multifaceted roles that encompass monitoring student progress, managing classroom behavior, and fostering a positive learning environment.
Interventions foster learner's curiosity and problem solving skills, instead of giving the answers away.
Selector and sequencer of tasks
Tasks are purposeful and real-life oriented.
Key role is leading students to ask achievement
Even if the tasks are carefully selected, the instructors are the ones in charge of launching the learning process.
In TBLT method, instructors assume a more passive role in the classroom
They perform and important mediational role co-constructing learning with the students. In other words, the instructors is to work side by side with the students and monito their weaknesses and strengths.
Instructors should motivate students to invest significant energy in task completion
And also support task performance and negotiation of meaning on the part of students.
Instructors spend time monitoring students' learning
Managing students' behavior, and promoting a positive learning atmosphere, among others.