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Task-Based Language Teaching Approach

The Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) approach uses tasks as a core unit of instruction in language teaching. The basic premise of TBLT is that language should be learned through a set of meaningful communicative tasks that involve students in comprehending, producing, or interacting in the target language.

In other words, tasks should go beyond pure practices of language skills. This approach emphasizes the meaningfulness and authenticity of language use, which also links to the communicative language teaching approach. Engaging students in task-based activities can help students contextualize and activate language learning. In short, tasks provide opportunities for language input and output.

ESL teachers working with TBLT link the curricular goals with communicative goals. Furthermore, teachers identify types of tasks (e.g., academic related, social related) that enhance learning and variables that may affect the success of task completion (e.g., English proficiency level, the complexity of the task).

As Susan Feez describes, tasks adopted in a TBLT classroom can be either those that students might need to achieve in real life or that have a pedagogical purpose specific to the classroom. When evaluating students, teachers should focus on the process of completing the task instead of the product.

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