Transcription of The Task-based Approach in Language Teaching
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The Task-based Approach in Language Teaching AQUILINO SANCHEZ* University of Murcia The Task-based Approach (TBA) has gained popularity in the field of Language Teaching since the last decade of the 20fh Century and significant scholars have joined the discussion and increased the amount of analytical studies on the issue. Nevertheless experimental research is poor, and the tendency of some of the scholars is nowadays shifting towards a more tempered and moderate stand on their claims. Reasons for that are various: the difficulty in the implementation of the method in the classroom, the difficulty in elaborating materials following the TBA and the scarcity of Task-based manuals count as important and perhaps decisive arguments. But there are also theoretical implications in the TBA which do not seem to be fully convincing or may lack sound foundations.
an L1 andan L2. Within the Vygotskyan perspective, however, both processes of learning share the same object (language) and some basic conditions of learning (shaping reality through language, establishing connections to the outside world), and it is only to be expected that some pedagogical 'therapy' has to be applied.
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