A Framework for Task-Based Learning

Longman Handbooks for Language Teachers

by Jane Willis

A Framework for Task-Based Learning is a complete guide to the methodology and practice of task-based language teaching. For those who wish to adopt a genuinely learner-centred approach to their teaching. It offers an alternative framework to the "presentation, practice, production" model. This book is based on sound principles of language learning and combines the best insights from communicative language teaching with a systematic focus on language form. It explains and exemplifies each component in a typical task-based lesson, from setting up a new task, through the task cycle, leading into language focused work. This approach allows the natural integration of skills and encourages in the learner a concern for both accuracy and fluency. Key features of A Framework for Task-Based Learning A flexible but coherent framework. A practical approach, with principles and rationale clearly explained throughout. Lesson outlines to show how the framework can be used to plan lessons. Photocopiable Focus Pages for use in teacher training sessions. Over 200 ideas for tasks for classroom use. A Framework for Task-Based Learning caters All learners from beginner upwards, mixed level classes, and the teaching of any second or foreign language

Genres: Teaching

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

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Jane Willis has worked extensively overseas as an English teacher, trainer and writer. She recently retired from Aston University, Birmingham, UK, where she taught English and tutored for 12 years on their Distance Learning Masters in TESOL & TESP programmes, working with teachers world-wide. She still travels widely as an ELT consultant and enjoys attending international conferences.

Her prize-winning books include English for Primary Teachers, a handbook of activities and classroom language, co-authored with Mary Slattery, (Oxford University Press) which has won two awards and been translated into six languages, and Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching, co-edited with Corony Edwards, (Palgrave Macmillan) which won the British Council Innovations Award in 2006.

Reviews

[Jake · Rating 5 out of 5]

Second time around the block; the first many years ago.

Classic. Transformative moving from PPP to TBL in practice.

[Osama Al Zu'bi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful book that explains the framework for communicative approach to language teaching.

[Ana Catarina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful during my teaching practice.