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【Abstract 】As a basic course for college English major students, the English extensive reading course undertakes many important assignments. However, nowadays, there exist some problems in the English extensive reading class. In order to bring students’ active participation into full play, the task-based language teaching approach is adopted to the English extensive reading course. This paper will discuss the definition of tasks and TBLT and a syllabus based on TBLT is offered to better display the teaching process.
【Key words】Task-based Language Teaching; English extensive reading; syllabus
1. Introduction
Definition of tasks and TBLT
Task-based Language Teaching is an approach that students reach the learning goals in the process of fulfilling a series of tasks. TBLT advocates that the notion “task” is a central unit of planning and teaching. Many scholars have defined it as follows:
Crookes defines a task as “a piece of work or an activity, usually with a specified objective, undertaken as part of an educational course, at work, or used to elicit data for research.” (Crookes, 1986).
According to Richards and Rodgers, task-based language teaching (TBLT) refers to the use of tasks as the core unit of planning and instruction in language teaching. (Richards
【Key words】Task-based Language Teaching; English extensive reading; syllabus
1. Introduction
Definition of tasks and TBLT
Task-based Language Teaching is an approach that students reach the learning goals in the process of fulfilling a series of tasks. TBLT advocates that the notion “task” is a central unit of planning and teaching. Many scholars have defined it as follows:
Crookes defines a task as “a piece of work or an activity, usually with a specified objective, undertaken as part of an educational course, at work, or used to elicit data for research.” (Crookes, 1986).
According to Richards and Rodgers, task-based language teaching (TBLT) refers to the use of tasks as the core unit of planning and instruction in language teaching. (Richards