To those familiar with Nunan's 1989 work (Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom) of which this new text is an updated edition, the difference that strikes one first is of course the change in name. The term ‘task-based language teaching’ (TBLT) was a far less familiar concept in the late 1980s and is completely absent, for example, from texts such as Richards and Rodgers' 1986 review of then current language teaching approaches. Indeed, Taylor, in the same year as the first edition of this text was published, in a review in this journal of Prabhu's Second Language Pedagogy--one of the inspirations behind task-based approaches—complains of the lack of clarity of ‘what a task-based class was like’ and appeals for the ‘indication of the “flavour” of a task-based’ lesson. At that time tasks were still often...
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The purpose of this article is to present an overview of second language (L2) task- based language teaching and learning. Prabhu (1987) deserves credit for originating the task-based teaching. Adapted from Jane Willis “A Framework for Task Based Learning” Longman. Experience with “public” speaking or writing, where some planning is.
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