Complete the activity below to explore ways to practice grammar and communication in a task-based manner.

What is text language teaching. However it will also arise from the circumstances in which you are teaching that language. The goal of the language teacher is try to develop pedagogical tasks thatare as close to real-world tasks as possoble thus creating activities that are meaningful and relevant to students. In other words a text-based approach gives learners practice with the many features of language they need to become more successful users of the language.

A hundred years ago a teacher would bring a text usually literary into class and would translate it word for word and sentence for sentence with the students drawing attention to similarities and differences between English and the students L1. Analysing texts to understand how they are produced and how they impact on their audiences. Im your new English teacher.

Among them there are exercises like gap-filling or fill-in-the-blanks writing summary linking actions paraphrasing and sequencing events for example. They claim using symbols andor abbreviated words or sentences in order to save space and time distorts the students ability to express themselves eloquently through writing and it distorts their ability to use words appropriately in context. It offers critical survey articles of recent research on specific topics second and foreign languages and countries and invites original research articles reporting on replication studies and meta-analyses.

Their exploitation however has changed over the years. Teaching grammars assume the student already knows one language and then compares the grammar of the new language to the one they already know. As an English language teacher youve no doubt come across a wide variety of different language learning materials such as course textbooks vocabulary lists grammar exercises flashcards audio recording and language learning apps.

Producing texts for particular audiences and purposes - informed by an understanding of how texts are constructed Language is explored in texts and texts are explored relative to their contexts. How are you today. We can divide the language learning activities under the text-based approach into two different categories.

My name is MrMrsMs Kim. The courses are for teachers who speak English as a second language. This paper examines the impact of text-based.