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Anyone willing to join in…... Please sit at the front!

Anyone willing to join in…... Please sit at the front!. Is he looking for a wife or the wife? Using tasks to draw learners’ attention to the usage of English articles. Articles. He is looking for the wife He is looking for a wife. Globalization. Speaking Tasks. Task through Task.

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Anyone willing to join in…... Please sit at the front!

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  1. Anyone willing to join in…... Please sit at the front!

  2. Is he looking for a wife or thewife? Using tasks to draw learners’ attention to the usage of English articles

  3. Articles He is looking for the wife He is looking for a wife

  4. Globalization

  5. Speaking Tasks

  6. Task through Task People at the front are you ready to volunteer?

  7. Picture Task • Look at your photograph • Describe your photograph • Decide the story • Choose 1 person to tell the story

  8. Picture Task • lottery • celebrate • crime • steal • wallet

  9. CommunicationStrategies • Negotiation of meaning • Management ofinteraction • Agenda Management • Turn Taking

  10. Task stages Pre-task Task cycle Language focus Willis, J 1996

  11. What are Tasks? “ A task is a holistic activity which engages language use in order to achieve some non-linguistic outcome while meeting a linguistic challenge, with the overall aim of promoting language learning through process, product or both (Samuda & Bygate 2008:69).”

  12. Why this task? In certain tasks, certain features of language will arise naturally

  13. Teaching grammar as skill “the learner is required to attend to grammar, while working on tasks which retain an emphasis on language use.” Batstone 1994

  14. Task Cycle –Students discuss the photographs

  15. Task Cycle –A student narrates the story

  16. Language focus Transcribe Restructure Practice Write

  17. Written example In the first picture a man is buying a lottery ticket in YOUME Town lottery shop. In the second picture the man is wins a prize. The man is getting a lot of money after he won the LOTTERY. After that, he is going to a pub with two women. However, when they is CELEBRATING, another man stole his WALLENT but he doesn’t notice, so the man is going to policestation. The man looks sad and disappointed.

  18. Summary

  19. Thank you! Colin Thompson thompscj@apu.ac.jp Neil Millington millingt@apu.ac.jp

  20. Communication strategies “there is a difference between knowledge about a language, and a skill in using it” Bygate 1987

  21. Tasks “A task is an activity which requires learners to use language, with emphasis on meaning, to attain an objective” Bygate, Skehan and Swain 2000

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