Tips and strategies

Summary

  • Task-Based Language Teaching is a methodology to teach a language, using authentic materials and re-creating situations that respond to the real-life. 
  • TBLT uses non-formal approaches and fits well within non-formal education because: 
1) puts the learner at the center
2) it is flexible and responds to the needs of students, 
3) open to all learners
4) it uses peer-learning,
5) it uses "learning by doing"  and focusses on practice

  • You don’t need to be a professional teacher to use TBLT methodology however you still need to know the language that you are teaching and plan your courses carefully;

Tips and strategies:

  • To prepare your lessons, use everyday life, when reading, writing, speaking, listening. You can use all these things to think up communicative situations for your students and prepare them to use the foreign language in real life; 
  • Remember: using non-formal methods for language teaching does not mean that you do not have to prepare your lesson. Non-formal education is planned learning and needs preparation and goals to be pursued;
  • Think of films, newspapers or books as teaching materials that you can use to simulate real-life situations in which your students can practise the language;