Task-Based Language Teaching: A Different Method in language Teaching

Teaching methodologies have always been a matter of concern for language practitioners andresearchers. A variety of teaching methodologies and approaches in language teaching andlearning has been experimented; each aiming to foster proficient language learners. One of theserecent methods has dealt with Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) as a practical way insecond/foreign language pedagogy. Task-Based Language Teaching has generally been definedas using tasks in order to provide conditions for meaning-focused and real-life language use forlearners. This research reviewed some articles and books written on Task Based LanguageTeaching to offer theoretical definitions of task according to chronological order and toelaborate different types of task and task phases. Finally, this research attempted to summarizethe characteristics of TBLT in promoting language learners communicative real-world abilitiesby applying tasks in instructional circumstances.

Keywords:

task-based language teaching , task types , task phases