Doing Task-Based Teaching: A practical guide to task-based teaching for ELT training courses and practising teachers

Dave Willis

ISBN 10: 0194422100 / ISBN 13: 9780194422109

Edité par Oxford University Press, 2007

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Titre : Doing Task-Based Teaching: A practical guide...

Éditeur : Oxford University Press

Date d'édition : 2007

Reliure : Paperback / softback

Etat : New

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The idea of using practical tasks to encourage students to use real language in the classroom has generated lots of interest among teachers in recent years. But how does task-based teaching actually work in practice? Doing Task-based Teaching aims to answer this question by explaining the underlying principles of task-based teaching and learning, and by giving a practical, hands-on guide to designing, creating, and using tasks in the classroom. The book draws on a worldwide survey of over 100 teachers currently involved in task-based teaching and includes many of the tasks and teaching ideas they sent in. These practical examples are set in the framework of the authors' extensive research into language learning. After an introductory chapter explaining the theoretical basis of a task-based approach, the remainder of the book is firmly focused on classroom practice. There are chapters on: - Task-based sequences in the classroom - Tasks based on written and spoke Published On: 2007-04-23

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Dave Willis began his TEFL career working overseas as a teacher in Ghana and Cyprus. He joined the British Council and worked for twenty years as an English Language Officer in Iran, Singapore and London. From 1990 to 2000 he worked as a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Studies, at Birmingham University, working mainly on MA TEFL/TESOL programmes. He has published widely on discourse analysis, the subject of his PhD thesis at Birmingham, on the description of grammar and lexis for ELT, and on task-based methodology. He is now retired from full time work, but maintains an active interest in ELT by researching, writing and travelling widely as a consultant and to international conferences. Currently his main area of interest is how to integrate grammar and lexis into a task-based approach.