Talking about Tasks: Exploring the language learning
potential of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)
by Dr. Koen Van Gorp, Assistant Professor in the Applied Linguistics
Program and Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Coordinator Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures
Michigan State University.*
Everyone seems to talk about tasks. Task-based language teaching (TBLT) may well be the strongest empirically supported teaching approach around. However, for many instructors, TBLT is still an innovative approach that deviates from more familiar structure-based or form-focused teaching methods. They find it difficult to incorporate strong tasks in their teaching practices.
This talk will focus on tasks, on what makes a task different from an activity or exercise, on how classroom tasks can be used to support language learning at different proficiency levels. This talk aims to provide you with the foundational principles of TBLT
so you can make tasks work for you and your students.
.*Dr. Koen Van Gorp is also Head of Research for the National LCTL Resource Center (NLRC) and serves as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Language and Education (KU Leuven, Belgium). His research interests are task-based language teaching and assessment, language-in-education policy, multilingual awareness and multilingualism. He is founding Co-Editor (together with Kris Van den Branden) of TASK. Journal on task-based language teaching and learning and Treasurer of the International Association for Task-Based Language Teaching and learning (IATBLT).
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Register: https://ucla.in/3WQhpwU by Wednesday, Dec. 7.
Zoom link will be emailed on Dec. 8.
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Co-Sponsor: UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Contact: Juliana Wijaya, Ph.D., jwijaya@humnet.ucla.edu
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