Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been considered as an effective language teaching methodology. However, its applicability for lower-proficiency learners in EFL contexts has not been adequately justified. Moreover, the possible mediating effect of the experiential learning styles on academic listening TBLT has not been targeted in the literature, a gap that this study attempts to fill. T...

This study examines university teachers’ beliefs and practices related to task-based language teaching while English as a foreign language. Task-based (TBLT) has become prominent topic for researchers practitioners in recent decades. It is also advocated by the Chinese Ministry of Education college teaching. However, few studies have investigated local EFL (English language) perceptions difficu...

The focus of this study is to examine the challenges that English language teachers encounter when using Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) in rural areas. research utilized observations and interviews as data collection methods. Additionally, discovered students are unfamiliar with TBLT find it challenging adapt since they have been taught Grammar Translation Method (GTM) their initial days s...

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been recommended in the new College English Curriculum Requirement China (Ministry of Education, 2017) for students learning as a foreign language. Teachers might not, however, implement these concepts their classes. This study aims to investigate whether concept TBLT made its way into EFL teachers’ theoretical beliefs and degree which is being put practi...

This critical review investigates the efficacy in using Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) to boost learner communicative competence as TBLT is taking a pioneering role developing language Asia and Vietnam. The application of Vietnam has faced several problems, including exam-based learning programs, classroom constraints, teachers' willingness for innovative approaches. Our in-depth analysis ...

This study investigates the effects of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and Audio-Lingual Approach (ALTA) on learning motivation among non-native Mandarin learners in as a Third (TMTL). The TBLT applied is an adaptation Willis's TBL Framework, while ALTA Sarıçoban's dialogue memorisation. A quasi-experimental design was used this study, with 21 students selected through convenience sampling ...

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) can provide learners with more authentic communicative activities, particularly in foreign language context, where learners may experience few such opportunities. From the perspective of sociocultural theory (SCT), scaffolding is a process of supportive interaction that occurs when learners are communicating with each other. There are situations in which the ...

This study was an attempt to investigate the comparative impact of two types of teaching approaches, namely content-based (CBI) and task-based (TBLT) instruction on the reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. For this purpose, sixty intermediate students from a pool of eighty five students studying at a private language school were chosen using a piloted PET. The students were then rando...

The Covid-19 pandemic effected a sudden shift to online teaching, prompting teachers implement many uncommon or even unusual teaching techniques in this unforeseen context. This precipitous move has radically altered our practices, where have had either completely do away with traditional practices modify them significant ways. One of the primary concerns voiced by is hold students’ interest an...

this paper examines the theoretical rationales and practical aspects of task-based language teaching (tblt) with particular reference to research findings in efl/esl contexts. the definitional scope of the term ‘task’, polarizations in terms of task vs. non-task, and its relation to different language teaching approaches have engendered conceptual and methodological ambiguities.  moreover, fact...