The Theories Of Task-based Language Teaching And An Experimental Application In The Teaching Of College Intensive Reading

TBLT approach puts the students as its center. It requires the training of language knowledge and utterance skills, at the same time it also lays stress on the cultivation of learners'ability of language using. TBLT approach has a prominent status in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching. It challenges the current college English teaching reality in China which is still language-centered, teacher-centered and text-centered. This paper explores the theoretical background and the application of task-based language teaching approach in EFL. It tries to appraise the feasibility of TBLT approach in teaching college intensive reading.TBLT approach emerges in the early 1980s. It reflects the change of teaching goals from language structural goals to language functional goals in EFL teaching. Its emphasis converts from teaching methods to learning methods. It embodies the shiftiness from What to learn to How to learn. And it mainly focuses on communicative function and its social use. It fulfils the shiftiness from teacher-centered to learner-centered. The communicative task itself is central to this approach. A task-based syllabus is a kind of process syllabuses. The organizing principle involved is not the presentation and practice of the language to be learned but all kinds of tasks and activities which apply target languages to communicate. This research carries out TBLT approach in intensive reading class in expect to complete cognitive tasks, linguistic tasks, cultural tasks and affective tasks, and to cultivate learners'communicative competence.Apart from the parts of introduction and conclusion, the thesis consists of four parts:In"Introduction"part, the thesis introduces theoretical background and objectives of the study. It reveals the guidance of structuralist, functionalist linguists and functional grammar on TBLT approach. Stucturalist linguistics emphasizes on the language knowledge and utterance skills. Functionalist linguistics stresses on the use of language and social communications. Functional grammar regards the nature of...