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  • 12 - Responding to the Critics of Task-Based Language Teaching

  • from Part V - Moving Forward
  • 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 333-352

  • Summary

    Task-based teaching has faced considerable criticism from teachers and teacher educators who maintain allegiance to more traditional approaches to teaching. Chapter 12 considers these outsider-criticisms (i.e. criticisms that originate from opponents of TBLT) and the misunderstandings that underlie them while also acknowledging a number of real issues they raise that need to be addressed if TBLT is to progress in the future. The chapter also looks at insider-critiques (i.e. issues raised by advocates of TBLT). One such issue concerns how to define and investigate the complexity of tasks as a principled basis for sequencing tasks in a syllabus. We discuss the different positions regarding such issues.