On Designing And Implementing Tasks For JEFC Classrooms

Along with the high speed development of China's economy and culture, English teaching has been developing very fast from teaching materials to teaching methods in order to meet different needs of different people. In middle schools this development shows even greater urgency and importance. The issue of the new English curriculum for junior middle school sets higher demands on better teaching and learning methods and effects as well. As one of the most dominant language teaching approaches in the world nowadays, Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is making its way to dominate the English teaching as a foreign language in China.With solid theoretical ground and profound empirical data, TBLT shows great attraction to syllabus designers, language teachers and also language learners. Yet it's still a new lesson for most of the English teachers in China to learn. So this thesis takes studying the most scientific and effective use of TBLT in China with the current English teaching textbooks as its purpose. It not only studies the theoretical basis of TBLT, but also makes careful research on how to design and implement tasks in JEFC (Junior English For China) classrooms in details.This thesis studies the theory and practice of TBLT with practical use of this approach as its goal. It clarifies the theoretical basis of TBLT from the cognitive and language perspectives so that readers of this thesis can easily accept the advantages of TBLT. It cites some famous researchers' remarks about the definitions and characteristics of task and task-based instruction to give a clear idea about task and task-based language teaching. Then it provides some important rationales about what needs to be considered carefully before designing a task, including task difficulty, task dimension, task types, task authenticity and so on. It puts greatemphasis on how to design all kinds of tasks for the JEFC classrooms. There are examples of listening, speaking, reading and writing tasks for different units in JEFC books. Also this thesis works out rich and colorful settings and modes to implement the tasks in classrooms for better learning effects.What's more, the existing problems in TBLT are also discussed in this thesis with scientific and effective solutions according to the reality in middle school English teaching in China, including how to focus on form while focusing on meaning is preferable and how to evaluate the students' academic and psychological achievements and growth.