Developing language tasks for primary and secondary language Tanatarova Mukhaddas

TASK is to give someone the responsibility for doing something. (Longman English Dictionary)
A task is a range of learning activities from the simple and brief exercises to more complex and lengthy activities such as group problem-solving or simulations and decision-making.
An activity which required learners to arrive at an outcome from given information through some process of thought and which allowed teachers to control and regulate that process was regarded as a task.
A task is any activity that learners engage in to process of learning a language. (Williams and Burden, 1997:168)
What is task?
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What is Task Based Language Teaching?
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It was first developed by N. Prabhu in Bangladore, Southern India. Prabhu believed that students may learn more effectively when their minds are focused on the task, rather than on the language they are using.
Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is an approach which offers students opportunities to actively engage in communication in order to achieve a goal or complete a task. TBLT seeks to develop students’ interlanguage through providing a task and then using language to solve it.
On the other hand, using tasks for teaching first appeared in the vocational training practice of the 1950’s. Task focused here first derived from training design concerns of the military regarding new military technologies and occupational specialities of the period. Task analysis initially focused on solo psychomotor tasks for which little communication or collaboration was involved.
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The usage of TBLT.
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1. Tasks can be easily related to students’ real-life language needs.
2. They create contexts that facilitate second language acquisition.
3. Tasks create opportunities for focusing on form.