Task-Based Language Teaching And The Study Of Teacher Roles In The Teaching Mode Concerned

Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT), a new teaching approach based on communicative language teaching, took shape in the 1980s and developed into an international trend in the 1990s. As it focuses on the principle of "learning by doing", it is stressed that language teaching process should be based on students' interests, experiences and knowledge level. Students can finish all kinds of real-world tasks by participating in various class activities. The process of completing tasks is important and the cooperation between teachers and students is also necessary. Not only can it help students experience the real world, involve themselves in various tasks and communicate in the real activities, but it makes students gain a sense of success and acquisition as well.TBLT is a new approach to language teaching, in which students are the center of language learning. During the course of accomplishing learning tasks, students are entitled to greater freedom of what to learn, in which way to learn the target language and what to achieve in language learning, and therefore teacher roles have changed a great deal compared with those in the traditional teaching modes. As to the design of learning tasks, it is highly demanded that teachers should have a good knowledge of the new teaching approach and good qualities for language teaching. In order to have a clear picture of English teachers and English teaching in today's primary and secondary schools in our country, I have done some research work such as survey, observing English classes and so on (taking Pudong New Area as an example). Through the research work, the English teachers' understanding of the new teaching curriculum based on TBLT and their preparations for conducting their English classes in the new teaching mode can be acquired and studied as well.The thesis is mainly made up of six chapters. Chapter 1 is a general description of Task-based Language Teaching. Chapter 2 is related to the theoretical bases of TBLT, while the characteristics, principles and practical modes of the TBLT approach are presented in Chapter 3, in which teacher roles in the TBLT mode are also discussed. Chapter 4 is a most important part of the thesis, which is involved in the presentation and analysis of the present English teaching situations in our country, taking Pudong New Area as an example,...