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

• Main Authors: Muhammad Badrus Sholeh (Author), Kisman Salija (Author), Sahril Nur (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: English Education Department, 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 10.46244/geej.v8i1.1295; 2355-004X; 2502-6801
• Keywords: Task-Based Teaching, English Teaching, EFL Classroom; Education; L; Auxiliary sciences of history; C
• Source: Getsempena English Education Journal, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2021)

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.