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Jane Willis and Dave Willis – Willis-ELT. Task-based language learning. Task-based language learning (TBLL), also known as task-based language teaching (TBLT) or task-based instruction (TBI) focuses on the use of authentic language and on asking students to do meaningful tasks using the target language. Such tasks can include visiting a doctor, conducting an interview, or calling customer service for help.

Assessment is primarily based on task outcome (in other words the appropriate completion of real world tasks) rather than on accuracy of prescribed language forms. This makes TBLL especially popular for developing target language fluency and student confidence. As such TBLL can be considered a branch of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). According to Jane Willis, TBLL consists of the pre-task, the task cycle, and the language focus. The components of a Task are: Goals and objectivesInputActivitiesTeacher rolelearner roleSettings Background[edit] Task-based language learning has its origins in communicative language teaching, and is a subcategory of it.

Task-based speaking. From grammar-based teaching to task-based teaching - making the shift. Fourth Annual McGraw-Hill Satellite Teleconference. Abstract Given adequate opportunities, older children, adolescents and adults can and do learn much of an L2 grammar incidentally, while focusing on meaning, or communication. Research shows, however, that a focus on meaning alone (a) is insufficient to achieve full native-like competence, and (b) can be improved upon, in terms of both rate and ultimate attainment, by periodic attention to language as object.

In classroom settings, this is best achieved not by a return to discrete-point grammar teaching, or what I call focus on forms, where classes spend most of their time working on isolated linguistic structures in a sequence predetermined externally by a syllabus designer or textbook writer.