A Study Of Problems In Carrying Out TBLT Mode And Strategies In Senior English Teaching

Task-based Language Teaching, a teaching method of communication approaches, was developed in 1980s. It is based on the research of foreign language researcher and the second language researchers. It initiates that students should put what they have learned into practical use. As it focuses on learning by doing, it emphasizes that teacher's teaching process should be based on students' interests, experiences and knowledge level. It can stimulate learner's motives and encourage them to use what they learn in class and eventually master the target languages. TBLT is a meaning-focused teaching method, aiming at fulfilling language communicative tasks. The research on the task-based Language Teaching is getting more and more popular, especially the new teaching curricular and standard is put into practice.However, TBLT was originally developed in the background of TESL, but in our TEFL background, we should treat it seriously. Based on the theory, the author uses synthetically classroom observation, literature analysis, etc and starts to analysis the teaching methods in the senior high school English teaching, according to the current trends in educational reform. Form the status of investigations and research, the author finds out a series of problems in the teaching of senior high school, especially the design of the tasks. Then the lead to the observations and finally the author put some commendations to solve the problem.The thesis is mainly made up of five chapters. Chapter 1 is a general description of the essay, which consists the origin and the methods of the essay. Chapter 2 is literature review, which introduces the background of TBLT Mode and the past and present study by scholars. Chapter 3 is a investigation of the TBLT. In this part, the author uses many ways to investigate the current state of TBLT, such as synthetically classroom observation, literature analysis etc. Chapter 4 analysis the main issues of TBLT and its causes. This part surrounds the design of tasks, such as the tasks which designed far away from reality, and also provides two representative teaching cases to reference. The one is from magazine and the other is from author's classroom observation. Based on this analysis, the author analyzed the main causes. Chapter 5 is some suggestions of how to use TBLT effectively. Based on the current issues, the author puts forward some suggestions.Chapter 6 is the summary .