A Study On The Application Of Task-based Teaching Method In College Oral Teaching

With the all-round and in-depth reform of teaching in the field of foreign language education,people have gradually realized that the leading aim of foreign language teaching is to train students’ communicative ability in foreign language.In the 1980 s,TBLA has grown up,which not only emphasizes "learning by doing",but also transforms the fundamental concept of mechanical language learning into specific application of practice,what is refreshing is that which likes some new blood injected into the field of foreign language teaching and also received the attention from scholars at home and abroad and the welcome from foreign language teachers.TBLA is proposed by N.Prabhu from the perspective of teaching in 1987.After this,later generations have entered into in-depth discussion about theory on this method.For example,Krashen in 1984 and Swain in 1985 have provided theoretical basis for the teaching method.However,Wills and Skehan have done more wide exploration about practice.Because TBLA pays more attention to communication,it is especially suitable for oral class with the purpose of improving students’ communication ability.In China,Yang Xiaojun in 2017,Wang Shanling in 2018,Ma Yuwen in 2019 and some others applied this teaching method to English teaching,while Liu Lin in 2017,Ding Qing in 2018,Gou in 2019 and some others applied it to oral Chinese teaching as a foreign language.It is easy to see that TBLA is widely used in English and oral Chinese class.However,due to the differences of the frame structure,nouns and the concept of lattices between German sentence and English and Chinese sentence,which make students are afraid of "speaking out".In addition,the traditional oral English class is full of full-class instillation,more grammar and less communication,which is bad for the improvement of students’ oral English level.While the features of paying more communication to TBLA can improve this problem.Taking Chengdu College of Sichuan International Studies University(Chengdu Institute for short)as an example,the author takes class 5 in 2018 as the teaching object and one semester as the time unit to organize and arrange the oral class guided by TBLA,14 "tasks" of which are arranged.Then two representative cases of practice are analyzed,and the application effect of this method are evaluated in oral English class by means of questionnaire and classroom observation after each "task" : which points out the advantages of this teaching method in oral German class,but there are many problems in the process of implementing.The first one is that the design of task difficulty is unreasonable;the second one is that the large-scale task takes more time in class;the third one is that the deviation from the topic and more reliance on Chinese.At last,the current difficulties and causes of this teaching method are analyzed by the paper,and corresponding suggestions are put forward based on the problems found and reflected by students and teachers,and combined with specific examples in the class.The first one is to moderate difficulty of control tasks;the second one is to clear time nodes;the third one is to strengthen teachers’ monitoring and guidance;the forth one is to improve the authenticity of tasks;the last one is to highlight the suggestions of students’ self-evaluation and peer evaluation so as to improve oral German classroom.The paper is divided into five chapters.In the first chapter,the feasibility of TBLA is analyzed in oral German class.In the second chapter,the implementation of TBLA in the oral German class of Chengdu College of Sichuan International Studies University is investigated from the perspective of teachers.In the third chapter,overall design of oral German class and two representative cases are displayed by the author.The fourth chapter evaluates the application effect of TBLA in the oral German class.In the fifth chapter,the advantages and disadvantages of TBLA in oral German class based on specific cases are summarized and specific suggestions are put forward by the author.