Application Of Task-Based Language Teaching In Setting Assignments In Senior High School

New course standard requires us to cultivate students'competences to use foreign language by using task-based language activities. To carry out task-based activities which are based on combining topics, functions and structures together, the new Senior English for China applies the task-based language teaching. Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is a new teaching approach. "Task" is a special term in language teaching and it's different from language exercise. It has its specific features, forms and teaching steps. There are varieties of tasks in English teaching, but the focus of every task is on solving a communicative problem, which has some connections with a real world of learners' lives and learning experience, and which can arouse learners' interest and participation. Task-based language stresses learning language by doing it, and learning by using it. It provides practical space for students to involve, also stimulates their interest and creates their abilities. Nowadays, task-based language teaching is widely used in the classroom, but after class most of the teachers are still using traditional ways to give assignments which have nothing to do with tasks .Using task-based language teaching as the basic theory and by studying the task-based language theories, task-based language principles and what others have already studied, this paper puts forward how to give students task-based assignments—written or oral assignments in applying task-based language teaching as effective extension in order to solve the problems that students can not finish assignments on time ,furthermore to cultivate students'interest to learn English and form good learning habits.In this paper, the disadvantages of traditional homework are analyzed, the importance, the principles, forms and assessments of assignments are explained in detail. In the procedure of experiments, some samples of interesting, realistic and communicative, creative, practical and Autonomic assignments are applied, which provide more practical space for students to apply language. From data collection and analysis, it has proved that students have benefited from task-based assignments and enjoyed their works, and we can also know they really make great progress in stimulating their interest , forming goodlearning habits and getting higher mark . On the whole, it solves the problem that students can not hand in their assignments in time.