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Task-Based Teaching: Principles and Techniques

Task-based teaching focuses on having students complete tasks rather than focus on language forms. The teacher introduces a topic through pre-task activities like listening or pictures. Students then work in groups during the task portion. Advantages include students becoming familiar with topics and using language structures naturally. Disadvantages include its applicability to lower levels and not basing the entire lesson on tasks. The teacher's role depends on the classroom management technique, like being a controller in frontal teaching or an observer during individual work. Errors occur when students cannot self-correct, while mistakes can be self-corrected with pointing out. Different error correction techniques are used depending on the situation, like gentle correction for free fluency practice. Listening skills are required

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Task-Based Teaching: Principles and Techniques

Task-based teaching focuses on having students complete tasks rather than focus on language forms. The teacher introduces a topic through pre-task activities like listening or pictures. Students then work in groups during the task portion. Advantages include students becoming familiar with topics and using language structures naturally. Disadvantages include its applicability to lower levels and not basing the entire lesson on tasks. The teacher's role depends on the classroom management technique, like being a controller in frontal teaching or an observer during individual work. Errors occur when students cannot self-correct, while mistakes can be self-corrected with pointing out. Different error correction techniques are used depending on the situation, like gentle correction for free fluency practice. Listening skills are required

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Part 1 (estimated working time 30 mins.

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1. How would you outline the main principles of Task!ased Teaching"
Task-based teaching stresses the idea that students are as likely to learn language if they
are thinking about a non-linguistic problem as when they are concentrating on particular
language forms. Students are presented with a task they have to perform, therefore the
focus is on the task, not on the structure.
#ould you descri$e any teaching techni%ues characteristic for the Task!ased
Teaching"
The first step is pre-task, when the students are getting introduced to the topic
(listening., pictures). During task, they are grouped, so group work is very important in
task-based teaching.

&. Please list some ad'antages and disad'antages of Task!ased Teaching(
)d'antages(
students become very familiar with the topic
they use a certain language structure without knowing it, therefore it is all induced to
them, it comes naturally
students discuss and eamine specific features of certain language forms, so they
discover the information
*isad'antages(
its applicability to lower learning levels is !uestionable
"t is not appropriate to base the whole lesson on this method
Students do not use the specific language for discussions, debate, social interaction
3. Please list some ad'antages and disad'antages of the following classroom
management techni%ues.
#lass outline )d'antages *isad'antages
- it reinforces the sense of belonging
among the group members
-it is suitable for activities when the
teacher is the controller
-it is a good way for the teacher to
understand the student#s progress
-it favours the group, rather than the
individual
-many students do not want to
participate, being afraid of public
failure
-it involvs the transmission of
knowledge, not research
-it increases the amount of talking
-it encourages cooperation and
negotiation
-students make their own decisions
-it can be noisy
-some students may dominate, some
may be passive
-it takes longer time to organi$e
-encourages cooperation
-almost all of them participate
-some students may feel they are left
aside
-some information may be wrongly
transmitted
+. ,hat is the role of the teacher in the following classroom management situations"
#lassroom m.
situation
Teacher-s role
%rontal teaching &ontroller, resource, observer
'roup-work (rganiser, prompter, participant, resource, observer
"ndividual work (bserver, resource
.. ,hat is the difference $etween /mistake0 and /error0"
)n *error# occurs when students cannot correct themselves and therefore they need
eplanation, while *mistakes# students can correct themselves, once they have been
pointed out to them.
,hat errorcorrection techni%ue would you use in the following situations(
1ituation 2rrorcorrection techni%ue
%ree fluency practice +one ot gentle correction
'rammar consolidation
,epeating, peer correction, self-correction, echoing
'roup-work feedback encouragement
3. ,hich listening4reading skill is re%uired $y the following te5ttypes" ,hy"
Te5ttype 6istening skill ,hy"
Traffic info on the
radio
-eople talking about
speed
./ o#clock news
,adio talk-show radio interview
Te5ttype 7eading skill ,hy"
0ob advert
"nstructions leaflet
+ewspaper article

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