The Design Of The Task In Oral English Course In Rural Middle Schools

The term Task-Based Language Teaching (hereinafter called TBLT) has been comprehensively introduced and advocated to and popularized among English teachers in China since the language teaching approach of Task-Based Approach (hereinafter called TBA) was issued by The New National Criterion for English Course in 2001.Its purpose is to make students learn a foreign language by using the language to finish tasks, emphasizing the meaning of the true scene in true communication.With the popularization of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and the Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), students' spoken English has been greatly improved. But because of the unbalanced development between urban and rural areas poor teaching conditions still impact the effect of foreign language classes in rural middle school. So the present study tries to probe into the problem whether the TBLT as a teaching method is suitable for rural middle schools or it's the process application of the method that needs to be improved.By analyzing the current TBLT, the paper tries to clarify the essence of the method. In rural areas, the students in the rural middle schools are short of the real English situation, and they have little knowledge about English culture and abut English language. So the TBLT can't meet the need of junior middle school students' development of spoken English ability. Traditional studies in the TBLT are mostly focused on reading and writing; few studies have a systematic approach to the application of TBLT the Task-based Approach to oral English teaching, especially in rural junior middle schools. This paper tries to demonstrate the point that so long as the "task" can be well designed, TBLT is applicable in the English classes in rural middle schools. The result suggested that the "minimized task" method could more effectively improve students' spoken English ability. But the effectiveness of the method depends on the creative design of tasks. Minimizing task is only an attempt of this creative design.