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Task Based Learning

Task Based Learning. In your classroom. Useful things to Know. Four stages of language acquisition. Stages of Language Acquisition. Task Based Learning. Learning in which students work together to complete an item of work using English as a tool to communicate.

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Task Based Learning

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  1. Task Based Learning In your classroom

  2. Useful things to Know • Four stages of language acquisition

  3. Stages of Language Acquisition

  4. Task Based Learning • Learning in which students work together to complete an item of work using English as a tool to communicate. • Provide an opportunity for students to speak to others in the class. Sara Davila 2009

  5. Stages • Pre-Task • Short language introduction or review • Task • What students will do • Post Task • Presentation or Reflection Sara Davila 2009

  6. What TBL Allows • Combine the areas of required English practice: Speaking, listening, reading, writing • Can be designed to focus on specific areas • Utilize student strengths by allowing students to work as a group

  7. Consider • Classrooms have a range • Address each level of learning • Consider moment of learning and where you want individual students to be in the future.

  8. Cooperative Learning • Cooperative groups and pair groups maximize language production time. • Allow students to learn from each. • Provide teacher with freedom and flexibility to focus on students with greatest need.

  9. Best Strategy • Create Base Groups • Group students in groups of four. • Don’t group students by level alone! • Rearrange desks and classroom as necessary • Use pairs within groups for mini tasks that can be shared with the whole group and then class. • Occasionally have students with other groups to practice or study.

  10. Analyzing your Program • Books and Materials • Co-teachers • Language Goals • Communicative Goals • Student Interaction Sara Davila 2009

  11. Tasks You can Use Sara Davila 2009

  12. Sample Tasks • Information Gaps • Have students create information personally or in teams • Rearrange the class to discuss and find the information • http://iteslj.org/t/tmm/ Sara Davila 2009

  13. Information Gaps • In a basic information gap • One or both students have different information • Students use language to share information • When finished students have the same information Sara Davila 2009

  14. Interview • Questions from materials • Students ask and answer each other • Can be designed for small group or large whole group communication Sara Davila 2009

  15. Card Games • Have students make the games and the cards • Students keep the materials, part of the portfolio • Sharing materials between classes so peers can see what others are doing • www.saradavila.com Sara Davila 2009

  16. Diagrams • Diagrams and charts can help organize information • Bar Graphs and Line Graphs can be used with and interview to find out what students have learned • (excellent with a Jigsaw) • Venn Diagrams excellent for comparing information in different areas • Builds higher level critical thinking skills Sara Davila 2009

  17. Hole Stories/Dialogues • Using a dialogue or story from the materials • Students re-write to create missing spaces • Working in pairs, one reads, partners listen and fill in the holes Sara Davila 2009

  18. Bingo • Fun for the Students • Expands on learner creativity and control • Easy to create several games in a single class Sara Davila 2009

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