Critical Analysis of Designing a Task-Based Syllabus



Tanzila Afrin
Rob (2003). Designing a task-based syllabus (electronic version).RELC Journal,34(1),64-81.from http://rel.sagepub.com

Designing a Task-Based Syllabus

In the last two decades second and foreign language has become more and more characterized by the communicative approach to language teaching and learning, whose main objective is “to develop the learner’s ability to take part in spontaneous and meaningful communication in different contexts, with different people, on different topics, for different purposes” (Celce-Murcia, Dörnyei, and Thurrell, 1997, p. 149). Task-based instruction is a new approach within this framework, which calls for language teaching to be organized around different tasks (Long, and Crookes, 1992; Skehan, 1998; Willis, and Willis, 2001). In this paper I summarize the article, identifying some relevant critical view that have occurred and offer comments about selected aspects; suggested some recommendations.
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