Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)

Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) emphasizes learning language through meaningful, real-world tasks, focusing on communication skills.

TBLT's theory of language is functional, viewing that language is primarily a means of making meaning.

Multiple models

Structural

Functional

Interactional

TBLT's theory of learning is experiential, emphasizing learning through interaction, problem-solving, and real-world task completion.

The teacher guides students on how to complete assignments.

The teacher accompanies and supervises the activity to check the procedures.

Students observe how language works in communication.

Students are autonomous

Asking students using the target language

There is a communicative goal

Learning by doing

Students are the center

Real world relation

Promote cooperative learning

Goals in TBLT are determined by the specific needs of particular learners

Pre-task activities

Instructions to topic and task

Task Cycle

Task

Planning

Report

Posttask activities

Analysis

Practice

In TBLT, materials can be categorized into:

Real-world tasks: These are found to be important in a needs analysis and turn out to
be important and useful in the real world,

Pedagogical tasks: These are classroom activities designed to prepare students but do not necessarily reflect real-world tasks

Materials provide task contexts, facilitate authentic language use, and support meaningful communication activities.