Background of Task-based Teaching Method

Background of Task-based Teaching Method: Task-based Teaching Method is a foreign language teaching method developed gradually since 1980s, which is widely recognized and accepted by applied linguists and foreign language teaching practitioners. It is also recommended and advocated by the middle school English curriculum standards formulated by the Ministry of Education.

Task-based teaching method organizes teaching through tasks. In the process of task implementation, learners' cognitive ability is brought into full play through participation, experience, interaction, communication and cooperation, and their existing purposes and resources are mobilized to perceive, recognize and apply the target language in practice.

In "doing" middle school and "using" middle school, it embodies the advanced teaching concept and is an effective foreign language teaching method worth popularizing. Task-based language teaching refers to the teaching in which teachers guide language learners to complete tasks in the classroom.

This is a language teaching method that emphasizes "learning by doing" and the development of communicative teaching method, which has aroused widespread concern in the world language education field.

This teaching theory of "doing things with language" has been gradually introduced into basic English classroom teaching in China, which is a trend of foreign language course teaching reform in China. According to this theory, mastering language is mostly the result of using language in activities, rather than the result of simply training language skills and learning language knowledge.

In teaching activities, teachers should design specific and operable tasks around specific communication and language projects, and students can complete tasks through various language activities such as expression, communication, consultation, explanation and inquiry, so as to achieve the purpose of learning and mastering the language. Task-based teaching method is formed by absorbing the advantages of many previous teaching methods, and it does not exclude other teaching methods.