Using Task-Based Language Teaching:

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Using Task-Based Language Teaching

• Engaging Your Students
• By Brad Tipka

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Brads Guitar Learning Experiences

• Three Teachers 2 Korean, I American
• Three Methods
• One Successful Why?

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How have students changed?

• More Responsibility
• Quick access to information
• Are used to seeing constant images (video games,
  TV, advertising, etc.)
• Immediacy of communication
• Globalization

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How does this photo demonstrate the Task-Based
Approach?
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Task-Based Teaching and Learning Lesson Outline

• Introduction
• Hands-On Activities
• Role of the Teacher
• Role of the Students
• Management
• Self-Access Activities
• Applications for Elementary School Students in
  Korea
• Conclusion

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Task-Based Demo Lesson

• Groups of four
• Choose any of the tasks on the board and work on
  them
• Work at your own pace
• You can do one or all of the activities
• Practice English Conversation!!!!

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What specific things did the teacher do in this
exercise?

• Introduced new vocabulary
• Provided instruction clarification
• Provided background knowledge especially
  regarding culture
• Listened
• Talked freely about topics not on the worksheet
• Demonstrated the activity Charades
• Worked with the groups equally

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What specific things did the students do?

• Cooperated with each other
• Decided what tasks to work on
• Decided when to try a new task
• Corrected each other
• Monitored each other
• Listened
• Laughed!!

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TBLT should use real world tasks..

• Call the airline and reconfirm a reservation you
  have. Check other details, such as time of
  departure, and time you have to be at the
  airport.
• Write your resume and exchange it with another
  student. Study the positions available
  advertisements in the newspaper and find a job
  that would be suitable for your partner.

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Language Exercise

• Fill in the blanks with these words
• boring, romance, Annie McDowell, chocolate and
  roses
• _______ is a terrible actress. Her new movie
  is _______. Its a ______, but its also
  extremely ________.

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Enabling Skills

• Teach vocabulary
• Comedies, horror films, action movies, romances,
  thrillers, dramas
• Teach structures
• What kind of movies do you like?
• I like_____________.
• Do you like__________?
• Yes, I do.
• No, I dont.

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Communicative Activities

• Find Someone who
• Group Charades
• Information Gap
• Interactive homework
• Investigative Tasks Creating Projects, Korean
  CSI
• Interviews

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Scenarios

• Work with three other students. You are on a ship
  that is sinking. You have to swim to a nearby
  island. You have a waterproof container, but can
  only carry 20 kilos of items in it. Decide which
  of the following items you will take. (Remember,
  you cant take more than 20 kilos with you.)

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Scenario Task continued

• Waterproof sheets of fabric (3 kilos each.)
• Notebook computer (3.5 kilos)
• Rope (6 kilos).
• Firelighting kits (500 grams each)
• Portable CD player and CDs (4 kilos.)
• Short-wave radio (12 kilos)
• Medical kit (2 kilos.)
• Bottles of water (1.5 kilos each)
• Packets of sugar, flour, rice, powdered milk,
  coffee, tea. (Each packet weighs 500 grams)
• Cans of food (500 grams each)
• Box of novels and magazines (3 kilos)
• Axe (8 kilos)

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Analyzing Self-Access Worksheets

• Groups of four
• Choose two worksheets that you used during the
  class
• Complete the Analyzing Worksheets study guide
• Present one analysis to the class

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Concluding Thoughts

• Task-Based Language Teaching addresses some of
  the ways students are changing
• Any curriculum content can be taught through
  tasks the key point is that the teachers
  usually will have to create their own worksheets!
• The teacher must stay very active during a
  task-based lesson assisting students individually
  or as a group!

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• Task-Based Language Teaching is another tool for
  your teaching arsenal use it when it works for
  you!
• Adapt this approach to your classroom where you
  are the expert!

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The Skys the Limit!!