Getsempena English Education Journal
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021)

TASK-BASED LEARNING IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) CLASSROOM: WHAT, HOW AND WHY?

Muhammad Badrus Sholeh (Universitas Negeri Makassar)
Kisman Salija (Universitas Negeri Makassar)
Sahril Nur (Universitas Negeri Makassar)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 May 2021

Abstract

Task-based Learning is increasingly prevalent worldwide. It emphasizes on authentic language use and asks students to perform meaningful tasks. English teaching by tasks is considered useful in a language classroom because the students are expected to learn better the target language when tasks are used in language teaching. The tasks are designed to establish a real language use objectives and to create a natural language acquisition setting. Task-based Learning, often considered being the powerful Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) version, gradually becoming second-language learning. This article describes the Task-based Learning definition, to recognize the principles and characteristics of Task-based Learning, to examine how to implement Task-based Learning in the English classroom, and to clarify the advantages of this approach.

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Journal Info

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geej

Publisher

Subject

Education

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Getsempena English Education Journal (e-ISSN: 2502-6801 and p-ISSN 2355-004X) is a periodical scientific publication dedicated to lecturers, students and educational observers to disseminate relevant research, thought and research results in the field of English. Any visitor to this site can browse ...