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Task-based Syllabus

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WHAT IS TASK-BASED SYLLABUS?

A task-based syllabus is one in which the content of
the teaching is a series of complex and purposeful
tasks that the students want or need to perform
with the language they are learning. Task-based
approaches syllabus, which create a favorable
condition and facilitate language development.

How and Why Task-based

Syllabus Brought About?
a) Theories of language:
) Language is primarily a means of making meaning.
) Multiple models of language inform TBL: structural, functional and
interactional models of language.
) Lexical units are central in language use and language learning.
) Conversation is the central focus of language and the keystone of
language acquisition.

B) THEORIES OF LEARNING:

Tasks provide both the input and output processing necessary for
language acquisition.

Task activity and achievement are motivational.

Learning difficulty can be negotiated and fine-tuned for particular
pedagogical purposes.

Strength of Task-based Syllabus

1. Currently second language teaching methods aim at developing students
communicative competence that will enable them to communicate
effectively in real communicating world.
2. Task based learning (TBL) requires students to engage in interaction in
order to fulfill a task. So in this way the underlying language systems will
be developed while students focus on the process of performing the task.
3. The most active element in the process of the task-based teaching is the
learners creativity. By exploiting this kind of creativity, we make learning
significantly more efficient and more interesting.
4. It is believed that the task-based syllabus has a richer potential for
promoting successful second language learning than do other syllabus types.

Weakness of Task-based Syllabus

1.The tasks must be suitable for the language learners not
too difficult and not too simple, so in this case how to
make a balance about these two tendencies comes
ambiguously.
2.Aspects of task difficulty should be considered so that task
implementation can have a positive effect on learning and
teaching. But it is too difficult to cover all aspects
thoroughly.
3.Requires a high level of creativity on the part of the
teacher.
4.As it needs group/individual responsibility, students may
resist and object to this kind of syllabus.

METHOD OF TASK-BASED SYLLABUS

COMMUNICATIVE METHOD

CLASS SIZE

Small group discussion

ASSESSMENT
Learners can see a model of the
activity they are to do first, prepare a
report how they completed a task, or a
project, and the teacher can record
this report and analyze it for further
work.

Examples of Task-based Syllabus

Preparing

a handbook to the school to be used

by other students.
Producing an employment procedure guidewhere to go, what to do, whom to talk to.
Doing a price comparison survey of food
stores.
Writing term papers for other content classes.

Do you have any

questions?

Conclusion
Task-based syllabus is a set of planning or set of instructional materials based the
aims that have been established for a language program. Task-based syllabus can
be used in teaching or learning the communicative purposes. It is organized around
tasks that students will complete in the target language. A task is an activity or
goal that is carried out using language such as finding a solution to a puzzle,
reading a map and giving directions, or reading a set of instructions and assembling
a toy (Richard 2001: 161).
A task-based syllabus, however, is one based on tasks that have been specially
designed to facilitate second language learning and one in each tasks or activities
are the basic unit of syllabus design. A number of second language acquisition
theorists have proposed tasks as a basis for syllabus planning. Long and Crookes
(1991, 43 in Richard 2001) claim that tasks: "provide a vehicle for the
presentation of appropriate target language samples to learners input which they
will inevitably reshape via application of general cognitive processing capacities
and for the delivery of comprehension and production opportunities of negotiable
difficulty."

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