Abstract

With the wide use of English in the world, English learning is becoming increasingly important. Most of the students learn English in the classroom. Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) is a new teaching model that has a wide range of applications in recent years. In the teaching process of TBLT, students complete the related task with target language in the different contexts .It focuses on the satisfaction of students’ basic psychology, especially the sense of belonging and the influence, it has strong emotionality. It expounds that only by the completion of the task, students’ basic psychology can be satisfied, can they feel that the learning is meaningful and be willing to learn.   

As a core of TBLT, teaching tasks become a trendy word in English education. This paper mainly focuses on the design of teaching tasks in primary school English classes. In this paper, the author expounds the definition of the task, and the task-based language teaching (TBLT), and discusses in detail about the phases, features and strength of the TBLT. The author also expounds the principles of designing teaching tasks, and according to the current problems of the application in the primary school, the author puts forward her own teaching designs and makes a brief analysis. The last part of the paper concludes with the advantages of designing better teaching tasks, and comes up with suggestions on designing teaching tasks. 

Key words：task; Task-based language teaching; task design; designing instance

Contents

Abstract

摘  要

Chapter I. Introduction-1

1.1 Background of the study-1

1.2 Purpose and significance of the research-1

1.3 Research questions-1

Chapter II. Literature review-3

2.1 Task-3

2.1.1 Definition of task-3

2.1.2 Categories of Task-3

2.2 Task-based Language Teaching Approach-5

2.2.1 The Theoretical Basis of TBLT-5

2.2.2 The definition of TBLT-6

2.2.3 Features of TBLT-7

2.2.4 Phases of TBLT-8

2.2.5 The strength of TBLT-9

Chapter III Teaching tasks designing-10

3.1 Principles of designing teaching task-10

3.2 Present problems of task designing in primary school.-10

3.3 Enlightenment to current teaching designs-11

3.3 Designing instances&analyses-11

Chapter IV Conclusion-16

4.1 The advantages of better teaching tasks designing-16

4.2 suggestions on designing-16

References-18