A Framework for the Implementation of Task-based Instruction

Abstract

This paper examines recent proposals for task-based approaches to instruction It reviews relevant research, before going on to examine a number of potential problems with task-based teaching, such as a potential focus away from form and towards lexis It reviews recent developments in cognitive psychology which support a dual-mode perspective for language processing, and then proposes the goals of accuracy, complexity-restructuring, and fluency as the most relevant for task-based instruction In the final section, the paper proposes a framework for the implementation of task-based instruction which draws upon relevant theory and research, and which organizes the methods by which such instruction could be put into practice in such a way as to minimize problems, and maximize the probability that all three above goals can be achieved

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Peter Skehan (1996). A Framework for the Implementation of Task-based Instruction. Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/17.1.38

@article{peter1996a,
  title  = {A Framework for the Implementation of Task-based Instruction},
  author = {Skehan, Peter},
  year   = {1996},
  journal = {Applied Linguistics},
  doi    = {10.1093/applin/17.1.38}
}

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