An Introduction to Task-based Teaching

This course will introduce you to an important approach to language teaching. It will look at task-based language teaching in a broad way. You will study what task-based teaching is, how it developed and how it fits into a broader curriculum framework. Most importantly, this course will focus on how task-based language teaching works in the classroom.

This course is meant to be practical. It will provide many examples of task-based language teaching in activities and from textbooks. At the end of this course, you will have learned how to implement task-based solution in your own classroom.

This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions.

Dr. David Nunan is the Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Anaheim University. Prior to this appointment, he was Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the English Centre at the University of Hong Kong and formerly the Director of Research and Development and Coordinator of Postgraduate Programs in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. David has also been recently appointed to the position of President, International Academics, a body appointed by the Ministry of Education in Beijing, China to develop and implement standards for English teachers. David is an accomplished author of over 100 books and articles in the areas of curriculum and materials development, classroom-based research and discourse analysis. He is also a textbook author whose projects have included Atlas, Go for it!, Listen In, Speak Out and Expressions, all published by Heinle Cengage Learning. David loves to travel and spends a great deal of time traveling around the world giving presentations to teachers.

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Requirements:

Internet access, e-mail, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

Syllabus:

All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.

A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.

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