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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)

1. 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.