Didactics II

Planning within the

Task-based Approach
Mg.Myrian Casamassima

TBL versions
CONTEXT

STRONG
VERSIONS

Willis
Ellis
Nunan

WEAK
VERSIONS

Estaire &
Zanon

Conditions for Language

Learning (Willis, 2000)
Essential Conditions

Exposure

Use

Desirable Condition

Motivation

Instruction

ANALYSIS OF A UNIT OF WORK

(Estaire and Zanon)
TOPIC
FINAL TASK
OBJECTIVES ( GLOBAL AND SPECIFIC)

CONTENT ( THEMATIC, LINGUISTIC, STRATEGIC)

PROCESS
EVALUATION

FINAL TASK CLOSE-UP

A Communicative Task

Final
Task

Achievable within
the unit of work
With a non-linguistic
purpose
Tangible, interactional
or both

Complex

TASK COMPLEXITY (Rib & Vidal)

TASK GENERATION 3
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

TASK GENERATION 2
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

TASK GENERATION 1
COMMUNICATIVE
COMPETENCE

Willis Framework
PRE-TASK

Activation of topic

Activation of lexis

Willis Framework
TASK CYCLE

Task

Report
Planning

Willis Framework

LANGUAGE FOCUS

Analysis

Practice

Communicative
Communicative
Tasks
STRONG
VERSIONS

Willis
Ellis
Nunan

&
Enabling Tasks
WEAK
VERSIONS

Estaire &
Zanon

Prabhu
Information-gap
Opinion-gap
Reasoning-gap
Littlewood
Precommunicative
Communicative
- Social interactional
- Functional
Estaire & Zanon
Enabling tasks
Communicative tasks