TASK-BASED-APPROACH

1. Conforting for the teacher
2. Clear techniques
3. Clear lesson goals, easily tested

Annotations:

• "Anything that learners are given to do in a language classroom to further the process of learning." (Burden & Williams) "An activity or action which is carried out as a result of processing or undersantand languages." (Richards, Plait & Weber, 1986)
• "Any structured learning endeavour which has a particular objective, appropriate context, a specified working procedure, and a range of outcomes for those who undertake the task." (Breen 1987) "The communicative task is a piece of classroom work which involves learners in comprehending, manipulating, producing or interacting in the target language shile their attention is principally focused on meaning rather thatn form." (Nunan 1989)

1. Language activity with focus on meaning over form. (Nunan, 1989)
2. Information-gap
   1. Transfer of information from one person to another.
3. Reasoning-gap
   1. Deriving new information from given information
4. Opinion-gap
   1. Personal reference, feeling or attitude in response to a given situation.

1. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
   1. Meaning -based tasks
2. Humanism 1960's - 1970's
   1. Development of self-awareness
3. Prabhu and the Bangalore Project
   1. Procedural-syllabus

1. Free of language control
2. Natural Context
3. Language arises from SS needs
4. Strong communicative approach