Doing Task-Based Teaching
A practical guide to task-based teaching for ELT training courses and practising teachers
Published on 19. April 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-19-442210-9 (ISBN)
Description
Task-based teaching has created enormous interest among teachers in recent years. But how does the idea of designing tasks (e.g. discussions, problems, games) that encourage learners to use real language work in practice?
This book explains the basic principles behind task-based learning and teaching and gives practical examples of how to make it work in different teaching situations.
This book explains the basic principles behind task-based learning and teaching and gives practical examples of how to make it work in different teaching situations.
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09/2016
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Oxford University Press, USA
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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.