Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) represents an innovative method of language instruction where learners acquire skills indirectly by engaging in purposeful tasks. Despite its popularity English as a Foreign (TEFL) circles, particularly the realms reading and writing, there has been notable scarcity research on TBLT concerning interplay between theoretical concepts practical application, doma...

With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies over the last five years, it has been argued that immersive 3D virtual worlds provide opportunities for language learners to engage in authentic language use and collaborative communicative tasks [4]. While in Japan a task-based (TBLT) approach is starting to win favour among government policy makers [18], where its functional and situated approach to lea...

This paper reports on the implementation of a semester-long task in a university lower intermediate Chinese language course. Web-based podcasting technology, ChinesePod, was utilized to assist this implementation. The first part of this paper focuses on the task design informed by frameworks proposed in the literature. The second half of the paper presents and analyses data collected from an en...

action research is an attempt to seek immediate solutions to the problems experienced in educational settings. in this type of research, teachers are the researchers who intend to make instant reforms to develop, and improve their teaching styles and reflect on pedagogical practices. the purpose of this study was to conduct an action research to tackle the problem of students' low motivation in...

this study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in tefl in comparison to those who have educated in literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. on a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has received significant attention from both researchers and practitioners of second learning. This approach been reported to be effective in various contexts. Studies on the teachers’ perception TBLT have also conducted. The results inform perceived benefits challenges using context. However, very few studies investigated Indonesian To investigate perception...