Abstract

Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) research has become a lively

perspective in the area of Second Language Acquisition and EFL teaching. In

the past several decades, many linguists have done tremendous work in not only

theory but also practice. Thousands of works explain the theories of TBLT and

convey this method to the field of English language teaching.

TBLT emphasizes the practical use in the real life, which means it put more

attention on the need in the real communicative occasion. Through TBLT,

students can get exposed to the environment of speaking English, and gradually

develop the ability of both listening and speaking.

In the English class of high school, teachers get used to applying traditional

way to “English teaching”. Therefore, the author reckons it is significant to

make TBLT a popular approach among the high-school teachers through this

thesis. At the beginning of the thesis, the author states the definitions of “tasks

and TBLT”. And in the second part, the author analyzes the characteristics of

oral English in order to find the essence of training of oral English. And then,

the author demonstrates some deficiencies of traditional English class. Last but

not least, the last chapter is devoted to some of ideas relevant to applying TBLT

in the oral English teaching and gives an example in high school English class.

It aims to give the teachers some suggestions on how to apply the theories to the

teaching and how to arrange class based on TBLT approach.

Key

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words: task-based language teaching, competence of speaking, High

School English teaching