Application Of Task-based Language Teaching In Middle School English Writing

This study has aimed at investigating the effect of a task-based writing program on middle school students. The design of the program was based on a task-based pedagogy and lasted for a semester and involved 61 seventh grade students. The subjects are taught to engage in interactive and authentic writing activities that simulate real-world situations. Both the quantitative and qualitative results of the program indicate that task-based writing training has had a considerably significant effect on the subjects'English writing proficiency in terms of grammar, vocabulary, mechanics, fluency and relevance, and that the program is able to significantly enhance the subjects'English learning motivations in Chinese EFL context.