Taking Task-Based Learning Online
On the 14th July we had the pleasure of presenting a plenary at English Australia’s EdTech Symposium. I think we were slightly surprised to be invited to present at a conference focused on tech – while neither of us are luddites, EdTech is not uppermost in our interests or practices. On reflection, this is perhaps …
Reactive teaching and informed feedback
Because TBL, along with Dogme and CLL, involve reactive teaching, language needs are addressed both during and after the task itself. Practitioners of task-based learning have given it a rather technical name, Focus On Form. This simply means that language focus occurs in the context of communication, so that the lesson itself remains centred on task completion, and …