Task Based Instruction

Task Based Instruction

Task based instruction offers an alternative for language teachers. In a task-based lesson the teacher doesn't pre-determine what language will be studied, the lesson is based around the completion of a central task and the language studied is determined by what happens as the students complete it. The lesson follows certain stages.

This approach is one of the main known through the history for the language teachers. Students interact of a practical and proactive way that means they look for the information to practice the target language. Both, teacher and students, play up an important role in the learning process while teachers are one guide in the learning, the students are the protagonist of their own interaction using the language. Task based instruction is often justified by the claim that linguistic regularities are acquired through ‘noticing’ during communicative activity, and should therefore be addressed primarily by incidental ‘focus on form’ during task performance. However, this claim is based on unproved hypotheses, and there is no compelling empirical evidence for the validity of the model.

Teachers who apply this method in their classes need to use good vocabulary for the students to perform the task and understand it. It means that students can feel comfortable with the task they are doing in order to create an environment where they show their skills by putting in practice the skills acquired. The teacher should be careful in selecting the right materials to facilitate the teaching-learning process. This approach can be a good option to use in classroom for those teachers who seek for developing competencies in their students.

Task-based language instruction has proven to be highly effective, but surprisingly underutilized. - See more at: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/task-based-instruction-foreign-language-education#sthash.X11wtBsU.dpuf

Task-based language instruction has proven to be highly effective, but surprisingly underutilized. - See more at: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/task-based-instruction-foreign-language-education#sthash.X11wtBsU.dpuf

Task-based language instruction has proven to be highly effective, but surprisingly underutilized. - See more at: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/task-based-instruction-foreign-language-education#sthash.X11wtBsU.dpuf

Task-based language instruction has proven to be highly effective, but surprisingly underutilized. - See more at: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/task-based-instruction-foreign-language-education#sthash.X11wtBsU.dpuf

Task-based language instruction has proven to be highly effective, but surprisingly underutilized. - See more at: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/task-based-instruction-foreign-language-education#sthash.X11wtBsU.dpuf