Discussions that work (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) - Task-centred Fluency Practice

Penny Ur

Cambridge University Press

2005

130 páginas

4h 20m

ISBN-10: 0521281695

The author, Penny Ur, successfully bridges that gap between ESL theory and pratical application. What is the "task-based" teaching approach to ESL ? It is NOT just assigning tasks and then moving around the classroom from group to group, correcting the student's English. Although this is what I observed many times in all the years I have been teaching ESL at the university level, this is not what task-based learning is about. It's about knowing the skills involved in performing language tasks then assigning them, based on the student's ability. Penny Ur takes the reader from the approach to application in her text.