Framework for Task-based Learning

Longman Handbooks for Language Teachers

by Jane Willis

A Framework for Task-Based Learning is a complete guide to the methodology and practice of task-based language teaching. For those who wish to adopt a genuinely learner-centred approach to their teaching, it offers an alternative framework to the "presentation, practice, production" model.An essential read for newly qualified, inexperienced and experienced teachers.

Genres: Teaching

Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

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Jane Willis has worked extensively overseas as an English teacher, trainer and writer. She recently retired from Aston University, Birmingham, UK, where she taught English and tutored for 12 years on their Distance Learning Masters in TESOL & TESP programmes, working with teachers world-wide. She still travels widely as an ELT consultant and enjoys attending international conferences.

Her prize-winning books include English for Primary Teachers, a handbook of activities and classroom language, co-authored with Mary Slattery, (Oxford University Press) which has won two awards and been translated into six languages, and Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching, co-edited with Corony Edwards, (Palgrave Macmillan) which won the British Council Innovations Award in 2006.

Reviews

[Jake · Rating 5 out of 5]

Second time around the block; the first many years ago.

Classic. Transformative moving from PPP to TBL in practice.

[Osama Al Zu'bi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful book that explains the framework for communicative approach to language teaching.

[Ana Catarina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful during my teaching practice.