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  • 1 - The Pedagogic Background to Task-Based Language Teaching

  • from Part I - Introduction
  • Rod Ellis, University of Auckland, Peter Skehan, Birkbeck College, University of London, Shaofeng Li, Florida State University, Natsuko Shintani, Kansai University, Osaka, Craig Lambert, Curtin University, Perth
  • Book:
    Task-Based Language Teaching
    Published online:
    07 October 2019
    Print publication:
    17 October 2019, pp 3-26

  • Summary

    This chapter outlines a number of key issues that will be addressed more fully in subsequent chapters. We trace the origins of TBLT in communicative language teaching and second language acquisition research. We then examine the developments that have taken place in TBLT, pointing to the multiple influences that have helped to shape its evolution. We address key issues such as how to define ‘task’, how tasks have been classified, how they can be sequenced into a syllabus and how a complete lesson can be built around a task. We also discuss the use of tasks in computer-mediated language teaching and task-based assessment. We introduce the key construct of ‘focus-on-form’ and explain its importance in TBLT and consider the difference between ‘task-based’ and ‘task-supported’ language teaching.