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Task-based Language Learning and Teaching by Rod Ellis, 591, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Task-based language teaching (TBLT), also known as task-based instruction (TBI), focuses on the use of authentic language and on asking students to do meaningful tasks using the target language. Such tasks can include visiting a doctor, conducting an interview, or calling customer service for help.

This book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages. It offers illuminating insights into the important relationship between research and teaching, and the inherent complexities of the teaching and learning of foreign languages in classroom settings. • Offers an accessible overview of a range of research on instruction and learning in the L2 classroom • Bridges the relationship between research, teachers, and learners • Helps evolve the practice of dedicated current language teachers with research findings that suggest best practices for language teaching. “Language teaching research and language pedagogy are complex and dynamic topics with a rich research tradition. Ellis succeeds in this volume in synthesizing a wide body of research providing valuable information about language teaching, learning, and research.

Both language teachers and researchers can benefit from this informative volume The book has several strengths [offering] a holistic updated picture of diverse topics in the field Insights and suggestions are provided throughout to make research findings into practical technical knowledge for language teachers.” Linguist List (29th October, 2013) “This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of L2 classroom research covering a wide range of issues in SLA and language education. Uchebnik promishlennaya ekologiya larionov. There are a number of useful tables and figures that present concise syntheses of complex issues. Although the volume addresses little about the development of specific language skills, it should be an essential read for teachers and researchers who wish to browse the major findings of empirical studies that inform language classroom practice.” ( Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1 August 2013) “The discussion of each study is critical but fair, and in explaining the methodological limitations of each study, Ellis provides readers with numerous ideas for how they could contribute to language teaching research in the future.” ( The Modern Language Journal, 22 August 2013). Rod Ellis is currently Professor in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland, where he teaches postgraduate courses on second language acquisition, individual differences in language learning and task-based teaching.

His books include Understanding Second Language Acquisition (winner of the BAAL Prize, 1986), The Study of Second Language Acquisition (winner of the Duke of Edinburgh prize, 1995), Task-Based Learning and Teaching (2003), and Analyzing Learner Language (with Gary Barkhuizen, 2005).

Task-based language teaching ( TBLT), also known as task-based instruction ( TBI), focuses on the use of authentic language and on asking students to do meaningful tasks using the target language. Such tasks can include visiting a doctor, conducting an interview, or calling customer service for help. Assessment is primarily based on task outcome (in other words the appropriate completion of real world tasks) rather than on accuracy of prescribed language forms.

This makes TBLT especially popular for developing target language fluency and student confidence. As such TBLT can be considered a branch of (CLT). TBLT was popularized by while working in. Prabhu noticed that his students could learn language just as easily with a non-linguistic problem as when they were concentrating on linguistic questions.

Major scholars who have done research in this area include, Martin East. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • Background [ ] Task-based language learning has its origins in, and is a subcategory of it. Educators adopted task-based language learning for a variety of reasons. Some moved to task-based syllabus in an attempt to make language in the classroom truly communicative, rather than the pseudo-communication that results from classroom activities with no direct connection to real-life situations. Others, like Prabhu in the, thought that tasks were a way of tapping into learners' natural mechanisms for second-language acquisition, and weren't concerned with real-life communication per se.

Definition of a task [ ] According to, a task has four main characteristics: • A task involves a primary focus on (pragmatic) meaning. • A task has some kind of ‘gap’ (Prabhu identified the three main types as information gap, reasoning gap, and opinion gap). • The participants choose the linguistic resources needed to complete the task. • A task has a clearly defined, non-linguistic outcome. In practice [ ] The core of the lesson or project is, as the name suggests, the task. Teachers and curriculum developers should bear in mind that any attention to form, i.e., grammar or vocabulary, increases the likelihood that learners may be distracted from the task itself and become preoccupied with detecting and correcting errors and/or looking up language in dictionaries and grammar references. Although there may be several effective frameworks for creating a task-based learning lesson, here is a basic outline: Pre-task [ ] In the pre-task, the teacher will present what will be expected from the students in the task phase.