Task Based Learning

the primary activity in the class is...

• The understanding

• The grammar correctness

• The task

• Reading

there are three types of tasks that Prabhu has identified, those are....

• information-gap activity

• opinion-gap activity

• listening-gap activity

• reasoning-gap activity

what is the disadvantage of task-based instruction?

• teacher-centered

• there is translation & use a lot of first language rather than the target language

• there is no meaningful communication

• the tasks are not likely to be familiar to the students

task-based was popularized by...

• Candlin and Murphy

• N. Phrabu

• Larsen Freeman

• Chastain

task-based is...

• an approach which the learning revolves around on completing of meaningful tasks

• language teaching method based on the coordination of language and physical movements

• a method of foreign language teaching which emphasizes the teaching of listening and speaking before reading and writing.

• teaching method for foreign language that can be taught or learn through translation

what is information-gap activity?

• an activity that requires students to give their personal preferences, feelings, or attitudes in order to complete a task

• an activity that requires students to derive some new information by inferring it from information they have been given

• an activity that focuses on meaningful interaction while still drawing students' attention to language form as needed

• an activity that involves the exchange of

  information among participants in order to complete a task

these are the advantages of task-based instruction, except...

• student-centered

• provides for practical extra linguistic skill building

• students are more likely to be engaged, which may further further motivate them in their language learning

• students will get to know new grammar or vocabulary features

how many characteristic does task-based instruction have?

• 3

• 5

• 4

• 6

what is the main characteristic of task-based instruction?

• a task involves a primary focus on (pragmatic) meaning.

• the participants don't choose the linguistic resource needed to complete the task.

• a task has 4 kinds of ‘gap’

• a task doesn't have a clearly defined, non-linguistic outcome.

based on Candlin and Murphy, the central purpose of task-based instruction is...

• to get students practice making predictions and a communicative function

• language learning and tasks present these in the form of problem-solving negotiation between knowledge that the learner holds and new knowledge

• students to know about the structure of sentences

• making communicative competence the goal of language and communication