Työpaja 50
Perjantaina 20.11.2009 klo 13.30 - 15.00
Task Based Learning Tools
Dave Willis - Biodata
Dave Willis has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Ghana, Cyprus, Iran and Singapore, as well as the UK. He was a British Council Officer for almost twenty years, before moving to the Centre for English Language Studies at the University of Birmingham in 1990 where he worked mainly on MA TEFL/TESOL programmes.
He has published widely on discourse analysis, task-based methodology and pedagogic language description, and is twice winner of the Duke of Edinburgh Prize.
He wrote The Collins Cobuild English Course with Jane Willis, and co-edited with her Challenge and Change in Language Teaching . (Heinemann 1996). He is author of The Lexical Syllabus (Collins Cobuild 1990) and co-author (with Ramesh Krishnamurthy) of The Cobuild Students' Grammar and with John Wright of The Cobuild Basic Grammar.
His latest books are Rules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English Language Teaching (CUP 2003), and Doing Task-based Teaching (OUP 2006), co-authored with Jane Willis.
He is now happily retired in the English Lake District, but maintains his interest in ELT through writing, conference attendance, and occasional consultancies.
Workshop abstract:
Task-based learning tools
What are your own views of task-based language teaching? Look at these statements. How many of them are true and how many are false?
1. TBLT is designed to teach spoken rather than written English.
2. TBLT is learner centred.
3. TBLT rejects rote learning as a useful activity.
4. TBLT outlaws the use of the first language in the classroom.
5. TBLT, unlike PPP, does not provide learners with language input before expecting them to engage in a communicative activity.
6. TBLT does not allow for the study of grammar.
7. TBLT does not allow drills and pattern practice.
8. TBLT requires a greater range of teaching skills and techniques than traditional approaches.
We will cast some light on these questions by looking at, and working through, two task-based lesson plans, one based on a written text and one based on a discussion task.
These lesson plans will provide a starting point for teachers:
- to prepare similar lessons for themselves
- to adapt course book materials for TBLT
- to assess how far they have the skills and techniques required to work with TBLT
