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: April 3, 2018: May 9, 2018Why I Read This Book / General OverviewI read this book as part of the bookclub for professional development that a few of us have got going at work.We try to stick to the Cambridge recommended,. This book was on the list, and moreover some of the other members thought it would be useful to read.Personally I thought it sounded pretty boring. ' A Framework for Task-Based Learning'! How boring could you get?But boring didn't really matter. This is a bookclub for professional development not pleasure reading. So I went along with it.Once I got into it, I was pleasantly surprised at how readable the book was.
Despite a very boring sounding title, the book is actually very engaging. Jane Willis has a lot of interesting ideas and thoughts on language learning.
And she is able to write these ideas in a very readable prose.(Jane Willis, by the way, was the wife of the late Dave Willis, whose book I read last year and also found very interesting. Dave Willis and were the pioneers of, and Jane Willis also seems to have a similar view-i.e. A distrust of grammar rules, and an emphasis on learning lexical chunks.)In terms of readability, I found this book at its most interesting in the more theoretical chapters-when Jane Willis was talking about how languages are learned, and why task based learning is best suited to what we know about language learning.The middle chapters get into the technicalities of lesson staging, and this is very useful, although less interesting. (I had problems with my eyes glazing over, and occasionally had to force myself to re-read pages when I realized that I hadn't been paying attention to what I was reading.) But what can you do? A book like this needs to get into the specifics if teachers are to implement it. (And again, this is professional development reading, not pleasure reading).Summary of the ArgumentsI was skeptical when I started this book.
In part just because the name ' Task-Based Learning' sounds overly scholastic and boring to me. And in part because I've not been impressed with the Task-Based Learning curriculums I've encountered in the past.In the past I've encountered task-based learning and project-based learning (similar to task-based learning) curriculums in which the tasks didn't engage the students, and getting through the lesson involved the teacher frog-marching the students through a task that they didn't really want to do.This made me cynical about TBL and PBL.But, I've got to say. Jane Willis really won me over. She makes a really good case for Task-Based Learning.That's not to say that I don't have a lot of reservations.
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I have a few of reservations about this, and I'll get to those down below.But first, let me talk about what I liked about this framework.In the opening chapter, Jane Willis lays out the language classroom conundrum very clearly-lots of people learn a foreign language fluently with no classroom instruction, whereas many students spend years in a foreign language classroom and leave unable to speak the language. (.)Jane Willis goes on to say that in order to successfully learn a language, everyone agrees that the student must have lots of input, lots of motivation, and lots of practice using it.Willis presents this as fairly uncontroversial-and I think by and large it is.(Although notably would disagree about the ' use' part. In, Krashen presents examples of shy students who simply listened quietly in the classroom, and still acquired language competency similar to their more talkative classmates. It's an interesting argument, and one that lingered in the back of my head while I read Jane Willis. But I think Krashen is slightly outside the mainstream-most people would agree that some sort of use practice is essential for language acquisition.)Instruction from a teacher is not actually an essential part of language learning-as Jane Willis has already pointed out, plenty of people learn languages without a teacher.But, all other factors being equal, good instruction can help someone learn a language faster. So Exposure, Use and Motivation are essential, and Instruction is desirable.Traditionally language school classrooms have had a hard time satisfying the three essential elements of Exposure, Use and Motivation.But Task-Based Learning can meet these requirements.The students get plenty of practicing using the language as they work on the task together.Motivation is a bit more difficult for the teacher to control.
But even if the student's motivation to learn the language in general is low, task-based learning can at least give the students motivation to complete the task, and so give them temporary motivation to use the language.The Input or Exposure part wasn't obvious to me at first.
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