Promoting authentic language use with tasks
The importance of authentic language use
Criteria of a Task
Presenter of the webinar
Dr. Lihn Phung
Director of the English Language Program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder and director of Eduling International, which offers English language instruction and services to students from any location.
A task is an activity in which a person engages to attain an objective, and which requires the comprehension and/or production of meaningful messages (Van den Branden, 2006)
Examples of real-life communicative tasks: ordering food in a restaurant, scheduling a meeting with a colleague, finding a solution to a work problem
Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)
Task types
TBLT is an approach to language teaching that "aims to develop learners' communicative competence by engaging them in meaning-focused communication through the performance of tasks"
(Ellis & Shintani, 2014, p. 135; Ellis, 2022)
- Types of communicative gap
- Information gap
- Opinion gap
- Decision making
- Language focus:
Text reconstruction/Dictogloss
Task implementation considerations
2. Discourse types
- Pre-task stage
- Pairing/grouping of participants
- Planning
- Task repetition
- Post-task requirement and review
Created by:
Madina ManapovaAiym Bolatova Zhibek Abdibekova
Task #1
Communication skills that are improved during this activity: 1. To describe a location. 2. To explain the point of view. 3. To describe a process.
Task #2
Communication skills that are improved during this activity: 1. To describe a location. 2. To hypothesis. 3. To clarify what has been said.
Task #3
Communication skills that are improved during this activity: 1. To suggest a solution. 2. To explain a point of view. 3. To clarify what has been said.
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Promoting authentic language use with tasks
The importance of authentic language use
Criteria of a Task
Presenter of the webinar
Dr. Lihn Phung
Director of the English Language Program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder and director of Eduling International, which offers English language instruction and services to students from any location.
A task is an activity in which a person engages to attain an objective, and which requires the comprehension and/or production of meaningful messages (Van den Branden, 2006) Examples of real-life communicative tasks: ordering food in a restaurant, scheduling a meeting with a colleague, finding a solution to a work problem
Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)
Task types
TBLT is an approach to language teaching that "aims to develop learners' communicative competence by engaging them in meaning-focused communication through the performance of tasks" (Ellis & Shintani, 2014, p. 135; Ellis, 2022)
- Information gap
- Opinion gap
- Decision making
- Language focus:
Text reconstruction/DictoglossTask implementation considerations
2. Discourse types
Created by:
Madina ManapovaAiym Bolatova Zhibek Abdibekova
Task #1
Communication skills that are improved during this activity: 1. To describe a location. 2. To explain the point of view. 3. To describe a process.
Task #2
Communication skills that are improved during this activity: 1. To describe a location. 2. To hypothesis. 3. To clarify what has been said.
Task #3
Communication skills that are improved during this activity: 1. To suggest a solution. 2. To explain a point of view. 3. To clarify what has been said.