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Communicative Approach and Task-Based Teaching Online October 11, 2013 This webinar will be recorded English Online Webinar Presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License .
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Communicative Approach and
Task-Based Teaching
Online
October 11, 2013 This webinar will be recorded
English Online Webinar Presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Communicative Competence
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Linguistic competence
Pragmatic competence
Discourse competence
Strategic competence
Fluency
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Task-Based Learning
Think of 5 tasks in ascending order
of language dependency.
1. no linguistic ability 2. 3. 4. 5. the most linguistically demanding
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Advantages
of Task-Based Learning
1. The focus is moved from the teacher to
the learner;
2. Language is a tool, not a goal;
3. Real life application;
4. Classes are interesting and they
address learners’ needs.
Task-Based Teaching Online
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Vyew Features
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Dealing with Vyew
Task-Based Activities in Vyew?
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Looking for an Apartment
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Leaving a Phone Message
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Making a Shopping List
Making Appointments
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Writing a Cover Letter
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Space Planning
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Initiating Small Talk
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Initiating Small Talk
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Giving Directions
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Go to Our Vyew Room
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1. Follow the link www.vyew.com/356242/Online_Task-
Based_Activities
2. Use Zoom In / Zoom Out tools
3. Explore the activities
4. Leave your feedback!
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Task-Based Teaching Online
1. You can create engaging task-based
activities using authentic resources
ONLINE!
2. You can do it easily and for free… just
share a link!
3. You will give your learners a powerful
tool to explore, to collaborate, to share
and to learn!
Questions?
Margarita Berezyanskaya
e-Tutor Coordinator
English Online Inc.
www.myenglishonline.ca
E-mail: [email protected]
Skype: margarita_myenglishonline
Feel free to contact us!
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Yulia Savchuk
Volunteer e-Tutor
English Online Inc.
E-mail: [email protected]
Resources
1. Tricia Hedge, Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom,
Oxford University Press, 2000, 447 p.
2. Xuemei Li, Johanne Myles, Pamela Robinson, Teaching ESL in
Canada, Oxford University Press, 2011, 320 p.
3. Jack C. Richards, Communicative Language Teaching Today //
http://www.cambridge.org/other_files/downloads/esl/booklets/Richar
ds-Communicative-Language.pdf
4. Jane Willis, Criteria for Identifying Tasks for TBL //
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/criteria-identifying-tasks-
tbl
