Why not check out the previous weeks’ post, if you haven’t already: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 We are finally here – the last week! This final week has been focused on really making a task from a reading text; in a sense, bringing everything we have learnt over theContinue reading “Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 6”
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Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 5
Before reading Week 5, why not check out the previous weeks: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 This week focused pretty much entirely on extensive reading, which I thought was really interesting. We did look at TBLT towards the end (and more in a way of extending extensive reading), but the main objectiveContinue reading “Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 5”
Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 4
If you’d like to read the previous weeks’ posts, check them out here: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Whereas the previous weeks have been focused on TBLT and reading in general, we got a little more specific this week – we focused on language in the reading classroom. That is, how we can integrateContinue reading “Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 4”
Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 3
If you haven’t read any of the previous posts, why not read Week 1 and Week 2. This week was definitely more focused on reading in the language classroom. We started by looking at the difference between intensive and extensive reading. Intensive reading is, in essence, reading that is done in class with aims andContinue reading “Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 3”
Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 2
If you didn’t catch the first blog post about this course, make sure you check it out before you read this one! So, week one was a crash course in TBLT, covering not only the basics but also providing loads of interesting research to look over. What about week two? Well, week two was veryContinue reading “Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 2”
Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 1
I started a new course last week, quite unexpectedly. I am a huge fan of task-based language teaching (TBLT), and I have wanted to learn more about it for a long time – ever since completing Delta Module 1. I read Doing Task-based Teaching (2007) by Willis and Willis about a year ago and hadContinue reading “Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 1”
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