Task-Based Teaching and Conditions for Language Learning

communicative Language teaching, language is a means to an end and the focus is on meaning. The learner has to formulate and produce ideas, information, and opinions and so on . The notion of task (as Morley 1991 noted), has developed out of communicative teaching and materials production. Task-oriented teaching is defined as teaching which provides actual meaning. The overall goal in taskbased classes is to get the students to use the language. At first the students have to comprehend, and then producesome verbal or non-verbal responses by their understanding. Willis 1996 In order to learn a language with reasonable efficiency , regardless of learner’s individual cognitive styles, some conditions must be applied. This article tries to explain the essential conditions for task based language learning and development : exposure, use , motivation , and focus on form.

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Task ، Teaching ، exposure ، use ، motivation ، focus on form