The Implementation Of Task-Based Language Teaching In Oral English Teaching In Senior High School

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) combining the advantages of traditional teaching theories with modern language teaching theories encourages students to learn and use the language by a series of interactive tasks, emphasizing the importance of communicative activities. The TBLT advocates learning from experiencing, practicing, participating, communicating and co-operating. Students can learn language by using language, finding and solving problems and experiencing the success of learning.Based on the cognitive theory, the second language acquisition theory and other related theories, this paper makes a further study of TBLT. It attempts to explore the principles of TBLT and discuss the application of TBLT to oral English instruction, trying to find a new and effective way in teaching for the purpose of developing students' oral communication competence.The author conducted an experiment to probe into the effect of TBLT on teaching by tests and interviews and made a detailed analysis of the experimental research. The study revealed the results: 1) The experimental class that used TBLT approach did much better than the control class that used the traditional teaching method. 2) Most of the students in experimental class like the new teaching method and received benefit from the new teaching approach.In conclusion, the TBLT is an advanced and efficient way of teaching andlearning oral English. It's of much help in improving students' oral English.