The implication of Task-Based Language Teaching （TBLT） in oral English teaching continues to draw attention of language teachers and researchers. This paper will survey issues at the core of TBLT, with particular em...The implication of Task-Based Language Teaching （TBLT） in oral English teaching continues to draw attention of language teachers and researchers. This paper will survey issues at the core of TBLT, with particular emphasis on the six task types in Jane Willis＇ theory. Following a brief introduction of TBLT, the six types of task will be reviewed and its practical use in oral English teaching will be explored. Finally, the paper will point out some problems in TBLT, mainly focus on task and its design.展开更多
Based on the noticing function of output proposed by Swain(1985, 1995, 2000, 2005), this paper reports on a quasi-experimental study that investigated the effect of two types of output tasks (i.e., the guided essay-wr...Based on the noticing function of output proposed by Swain(1985, 1995, 2000, 2005), this paper reports on a quasi-experimental study that investigated the effect of two types of output tasks (i.e., the guided essay-writing task and the text-reconstruction task) on the acquisition of English past hypothetic conditional. The participants were 48 second-year English majors from a university in South China. The experimental group (n=24) wrote an essay after reading the writing prompt and reconstructed a passage...展开更多
文摘The implication of Task-Based Language Teaching （TBLT） in oral English teaching continues to draw attention of language teachers and researchers. This paper will survey issues at the core of TBLT, with particular emphasis on the six task types in Jane Willis＇ theory. Following a brief introduction of TBLT, the six types of task will be reviewed and its practical use in oral English teaching will be explored. Finally, the paper will point out some problems in TBLT, mainly focus on task and its design.
文摘Based on the noticing function of output proposed by Swain(1985, 1995, 2000, 2005), this paper reports on a quasi-experimental study that investigated the effect of two types of output tasks (i.e., the guided essay-writing task and the text-reconstruction task) on the acquisition of English past hypothetic conditional. The participants were 48 second-year English majors from a university in South China. The experimental group (n=24) wrote an essay after reading the writing prompt and reconstructed a passage...
