THE EFFICIENCY OF TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING APPROACH IN ESL TEACHING PROCESSES .

Abstract

Abstract.
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) represents an approach to language learning and
teaching grounded in the expanding database of second language acquisition (SLA)
research.Having grown out of the communicative approach to language teaching (CLT),
TBLT proposes task as the unit of analysis in SLA research and language pedagogy. While
there are several proposals for understanding and implementing TBLT, these have in
common an experiential 'learning by doing' philosophy, informed by analyses of real-world
tasks, and the design, staging and implementation of related pedagogic tasks. Identifiable
challenges exist in implementing TBLT, as shown by investigations in various contexts, but
it is argued that the shared unit of analysis provides an improved potential for synergies
among theory, research and contextualised practice in language learning and teaching.