PEDAGOGIC MATERIALS
Instructional materials play an important role in TBLT because it is de-pendent on a
sufficient supply of appropriate classroom tasks, some of which may require considerable
time, ingenuity, and resources to develop. Materials that can be exploited for instruction in
TBLT are limited only by the imagination of the task designer. Many contemporary language
teaching texts cite a "task focus" or "task-based activities" among their credentials, though
most of the tasks that appear in such books are familiar classroom activities for teachers who
employ collaborative learning, Communicative Language Teaching, or small-group activities.
Several teacher resource books are available that contain representative sets of sample task
activities (e.g., Willis 1996) that can be adapted for a variety of situations. A number of task
collections have also been put into textbook form for students use. Some of these are in more
or less traditional text format (e.g., Think Twice, Hover 1986), some are multimedia (e.g.,
Challenges, Candlin and Edelhoff 1982), and some are published as task cards (e.g.,
Malaysian Upper Secondary Communicational Syllabus Resource Kit, 1979). A wide variety
of realia can also be used as a resource for TBI.
REALIA
TBI proponents favor the use of authentic tasks supported by authentic materials wherever
possible. Popular media obviously provide rich resources for such materials. The following
are some of the task types that can be built around such media products.
Newspapers
- Students examine a newspaper, determine its sections, and suggest three new sections that
might go in the newspaper.
- Students prepare a job-wanted ad using examples from the classified section.
- Students prepare their weekend entertainment plan using the entertainment section.
Television
- Students take notes during the weather report and prepare a map with weather symbols
showing likely weather for the predicted period.
- In watching an infomercial, students identify and list "hype" words and then try to construct
a parallel ad following the sequence of the hype words.
- After watching an episode of an unknown soap opera, students list the characters (with
known or made-up names) and their possible relationship to other characters in the episode.
Internet
- Given a book title to be acquired, students conduct a comparative shopping analysis of three
Internet booksellers, listing prices, mailing times, and shipping charges, and choose a
vendor, justifying their choice.
- Seeking to find an inexpensive hotel in Tokyo, students search with three different search
engines (e.g., Yahoo, Netscape, Snap), comparing search times and analyzing the first ten
hits to determine most useful search engine for their purpose.
- Students initiate .a "chat" in a chat room, indicating a current interest in their life and
developing an answer to the first three people to respond. They then start a diary with these
text-sets, ranking the responses.
PEDAGOGIC MATERIALSInstructional materials play an important role in TBLT because it is de-pendent on asufficient supply of appropriate classroom tasks, some of which may require considerabletime, ingenuity, and resources to develop. Materials that can be exploited for instruction inTBLT are limited only by the imagination of the task designer. Many contemporary languageteaching texts cite a "task focus" or "task-based activities" among their credentials, thoughmost of the tasks that appear in such books are familiar classroom activities for teachers whoemploy collaborative learning, Communicative Language Teaching, or small-group activities.Several teacher resource books are available that contain representative sets of sample taskactivities (e.g., Willis 1996) that can be adapted for a variety of situations. A number of taskcollections have also been put into textbook form for students use. Some of these are in moreor less traditional text format (e.g., Think Twice, Hover 1986), some are multimedia (e.g.,Challenges, Candlin and Edelhoff 1982), and some are published as task cards (e.g.,Malaysian Upper Secondary Communicational Syllabus Resource Kit, 1979). A wide varietyof realia can also be used as a resource for TBI.REALIATBI proponents favor the use of authentic tasks supported by authentic materials whereverpossible. Popular media obviously provide rich resources for such materials. The followingare some of the task types that can be built around such media products.Newspapers- Students examine a newspaper, determine its sections, and suggest three new sections thatmight go in the newspaper.- Students prepare a job-wanted ad using examples from the classified section.- Students prepare their weekend entertainment plan using the entertainment section.Television- Students take notes during the weather report and prepare a map with weather symbolsshowing likely weather for the predicted period.- In watching an infomercial, students identify and list "hype" words and then try to constructa parallel ad following the sequence of the hype words.- After watching an episode of an unknown soap opera, students list the characters (withknown or made-up names) and their possible relationship to other characters in the episode.Internet- Given a book title to be acquired, students conduct a comparative shopping analysis of threeInternet booksellers, listing prices, mailing times, and shipping charges, and choose avendor, justifying their choice.- Seeking to find an inexpensive hotel in Tokyo, students search with three different searchengines (e.g., Yahoo, Netscape, Snap), comparing search times and analyzing the first tenhits to determine most useful search engine for their purpose.- Students initiate .a "chat" in a chat room, indicating a current interest in their life anddeveloping an answer to the first three people to respond. They then start a diary with thesetext-sets, ranking the responses.
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