《绵阳四川》PPT课件.ppt

Task-based in practice

Roamergary@
July 2006
How would you react to these “English”?
Carefully slippery!
Waiter wake up you:
Attend to slipping!
小心地滑!
Wet floor!
Implication:
English learning is more than just dismantling and reassembling, translating back and forth!
This presentation includes:
Teach to English
Why task-based
What task-based
How task-based
Teach to English tests
Review
Mock tests
Why task-based?
Does it really work in a Chinese context?
In what way is it superior to other approaches, say Grammar-translation or PPP?
Does it contribute to our immediate concern---the tests?
Findings from classroom observation
Two extremes
Class still conducted in the old way,plete neglect of new elements in Go For It, namely, functions, experiencing and interaction
Tasks and activities all the way, with little language learning taking place. Many students fail to respond essfully to the demands from the assignments
Findings from test analysis
Listen and respond
Why not go to the seaside for your holiday?
A. Sounds great.
B. I don’t know.
C. Because I’m busy.
The majority chose C, WHY?
New insight into language and language learning
learning language . learning about language
Language for study . language for use
Linguistic knowledge
Accuracy to fluency . fluency to accuracy
Meaning . form
Teacher dominance . student autonomy
Words & grammar alone do not entail prehension
If you can read this,
then you haven’t spent enough money