Monitor

Risk-taker Group participant

Learner roles in TBLT

Skehan’s (1998)
Prepares learners for tasks

Selector and sequencer of

Consciousness-raising tasks
Long’s (1985) Ellis’s (2003)

There are three main

approaches to TBLT Teacher roles in TBLT

It has to be motivating

It has to adress the student's needs

It must elicit real communication

It has to be meaningful to the students

Is an approach to the design A goal orientated activity in
Task Based Learning Characteristics of
of languages courses Task  which learners use language
successful tasks It shoul be for pair or group work
to achieve a real outcome

It has to train students to use sgrategies 

It must include Pre task, While task and Post task 

It should be authentic 

Benefits of Task Based

Language Teaching Challenges of Task Based
It is intrinsically Language Teaching
Can be deployed together Some learners employ the Need of resources beyond
motivating with a more traditional mother tongue when they textbooks and materials
approach face with a difficulty used in foreign language
classrooms
Improvement of
Offers learners a fertile There is a danger for learners Misplace of words into the
communicative fluency while
input of target language to attain fluency at the expense discourse in learner's
not disregarding accuracy
of accuracy development
Provides natural learning
within the classroom Students may refuse due
context  task-based language due
to different expectations