What is the role of the teacher in TBLT?
The teacher chooses tasks according to the student's interests and needs, monitors the student's performance and intervenes when necessary.
What is the goal of teachers who use TBLT?
The goal is to facilitate student's learning by engaging them in a variety of tasks that have a clear outcome.
What are the phases of TBLT?
Pre-task, Task and Post-Task.
What areas of language are emphasized in TBLT?
Depending on the nature of the task, any of the four skills can be utilized.
How is the evaluation of TBLT accomplished?
The teacher evaluates students in light of task outcomes and the language they use.
What is the role of the student in TBLT?
The student's role is to communicate with their peers to complete a task.
What is the lexical Approach?
The lexical approach consists of the capacity of understanding and producing lexical phrases as non-analyzed entities (chunks).
Give an example of a chunk of the language.
Collocations, fixed expressions, idioms and catchphrases, formulaic utterances, sentence starters and verb patterns are examples of chunks of the language.
How might the learning of chunks benefit language learning overall?
Chunks of language facilitate fluency, confer idiomaticity and provide the raw material for subsequent language development.
