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Description
In the recent three decades, task-based language teaching has attracted attention from researchers, teacher trainers and teaching materials developers. They have conducted a lot of investigations to prove the effectiveness of this method in different circumstances of teaching (Sanchez, 2004). Thus, along with the access to communicative language teaching, task-based language teaching has become a teaching method which has been used more and more by curriculum designers and coursebook writers. In order to maximize learners’ autonomy and realize the target of learner-centered approach and practice-oriented learning, English language teachers at the researcher’s university have applied this method into teaching speaking skills for second-year English major students in the faculty of English. After doing survey questionnaires, the benefits as well as the limitations of using this method for teaching speaking skills for the students have been clearly shown. This paper mainly focuses on summarizing the typical characteristics of task-based language teaching, then presenting the findings of applying this method into teaching speaking skills in fact, with a view to promote the effectiveness of using it in teaching and learning language skills in class.
Key words: task-based language teaching, speaking skills, English major students, benefits, effectiveness
Biography
Đỗ Tiến Đức is a senior lecturer of English at Hanoi Pedagogical University 2. He is currently head of the group of Translation - Interpretation in the faculty of English at the university. He earned his BA degree of English Language Teaching and MA degree of English Linguistics at University of Languages and International Studies, Hanoi National University. He has been teaching English for more than twenty years and has gained a lot of experiences in English language teaching. He has taught a variety of subjects for English major students at university, such as language skills (including Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing), Writing Academic English, Scientific Research Methods in English, English for Specific Purposes, Theory of Translation, Translation, Interpretation, etc. His research interests are in the field of English Language Teaching, Development of Language Skills, and Research Methods in Language Learning. He has presented widely different topics of these fields in various conferences on English language education. So far, he has had a lot of articles published in the proceedings for both international and national conferences held every year at different institutions in Vietnam.
