1. TASKIFICATION
AT UPPER LEVEL
21st October 2010 ENGLISH TEACHERS' DAY 1

2. Aims &
Objectives ¨ To raise awareness of
Task-Based Learning /
Teaching methodology
¨ To explore the TBL/T
framework through
hands-on material
¨ To provide some
theoretical grounding of
TBL/T
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3. ¨ Warm up
¨ TBL/T versus
PPP
¨ Experimentation
with taskification
¨ The TBL
framework
¨ Wrap up
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4. ¨ Set up an individual list
of arrangements you
had to make to come to
the ETD today.
¨ Compare + discuss it
with your partner and
decide which of the
arrangements were
easier to make than
others and why.
¨ Report back + present
your findings to the
plenary.
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8. ¨ Museum officials in Thailand
have covered a billboard
depicting Adolf Hitler saluting
after complaints from the
German and Israeli embassies.
¨ The advertisement, which reads
in Thai, "Hitler is not dead," was
set up on a main road out of
Bangkok in October 2009.
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9. ¨ Group 1:
¡ You are the German ambassador in Thailand.
Discuss the billboard with your members of staff and
write a letter of complaint (150 words). Present it.
¨ Group 2:
¡ You are the Israeli ambassador in Thailand. Discuss
the billboard with your members of staff and write a
letter of complaint (150 words). Present it.
¨ Group 3:
¡ You are the director of the museum responsible for
setting up the billboard. Justify your decision with
your members of staff and write a reply an apology
(150 words). Present it.
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10. COMPLAINT APOLOGY
¨ Disrespectful ¨ I’m sorry
¨ Disturbing ¨ I regret to
¨ Dear Sir ¨ Cause problems
¨ Yours sincerely ¨ To make sure it will never
¨ Commercial happen again
¨ Conscience ¨ Misunderstanding
¨ Provocation ¨ Inconvenient
¨ I was disappointed to see ¨ A mistake
¨ Annoyed ¨ Regarding our
¨ Furious advertisement
¨ Protest ¨ To be unaware of
¨ To apologise profusely
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11. PRE-TASK (1) TASK CYCLE (2)
¨ Introducing topic and ¨ Group work: planning
task and preparation
¨ Clear purpose and ¨ Reporting back and
intructions Presentation
¨ Recall useful vocabulary
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12. LANGUAGE FOCUS (3)
¨ Analysis, discussion
¨ Focus on form
¨ Pattern seeking
¨ Practice
¨ Input
¨ Review
¨ …….
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13. ¨ The Bangkok Post newspaper
quoted German Ambassador
Hanns Schumacher as saying he
told officials in Pattaya, “this
kind of utterly tasteless
advertisement would hurt the
feelings of many people” and
asked that the billboard be taken
down.
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14. ¨ Israeli Ambassador Itzhak
Shoham also was quoted saying
he requested the same. “It is
totally unacceptable to have such
a monster like Adolf Hitler on
public display,” he told the Post.
“How this could happen is
beyond my understanding and
comprehension.”
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15. ¨ "We weren't showing his image to
celebrate him," Mr Naksuetrong the
director of the museum, told AFP.
¨ "We think he is an important
historical figure, but in a horrible
way. We apologise for causing any
offense which was not at all
intended. We did not realise it would
make people so angry," he added.
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16. ¨ The billboard was covered up after
the museum received "a lot" of
complaints, director Somporn
Naksuetrong said.
¨ The series of highway
advertisements featuring famous
dead people promote Louis
Tussaud's Waxworks in Pattaya.
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18. ¨ It has to be recognised that the use of
Nazi imagery has not got the same
emotional impact in South East Asia as it
does in Jerusalem and Berlin, in fact, the
Thais have used swastikas, images of
Hitler, and even allowed a Nazi Bar to be
opened in Bangkok (the walls of which
were adorned with pictures of storm
troopers and waiters dressed in jack
boots with Nazi armbands).
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21. PPP TBL
¨ Presentation ¨ Pre-task
¨ Practice model of activities ahead,
topic, expectations
artificial language
¨ Task
activities, e.g. gap-filling
All the language resources
¨ Production
available
use language items ¨ Planning & Report
correctly in a
¨ Analysis
communication activity
¨ Practice (reuse language)
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22. PPP TBL
¨ False impressions ¨ Free in how to use
¨ Overuse language language
items, making language ¨ Natural, relevant,
unnatural personal context
¨ May not use newly ¨ Higher exposure to
acquired language items other language items
in final activity ¨ ‘satisfy the need’
¨ Communicative
¨ Fun & motivating
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23. ¨ http://
www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
think/articles/a-task-based-
approach
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24. STARBUCKS’S
GUNS
AND
LATTES
POLICY
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26. ¨ Warmer: Show Starbucks mug & pictures of
protests
¨ Read text and discuss controversy
¨ Students write a blog entry
¨ Read some blog entries posted on
www.guardian.co.uk (Richard Adam #18)
¨ Compare
¨ Focus on form: discuss language used for blogs
and formal writing
¨ Teacher provides language input
¨ Students write formal letter to the editor
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27. ¨ Taskify
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30. ¨ To develop the personality of the students
through the experience of learning a foreign
language
¨ To develop creativity,interpersonal,
intercultural skills
¨ …
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31. ¨ 1984
¨ The Curious Incident of the dog …
¨ Homeless text
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32. A task is a piece of classroom work that involves
learners in comprehending, manipulating,
producing or interacting in the target language
while their attention is focused on mobilizing their
grammatical knowledge in order to express
meaning, and in which the intention is to convey
meaning rather than to manipulate form. The
task should also have a sense of completeness, being
able to stand alone as a communicative act in its
own right with a beginning, a middle and an end.
David Nunan, 2006
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36. “ tasks are activities where the target language is used by the
learner for a communicative purpose in order to achieve an
outcome” (Jane Willis, p. 23)
“Focus on form allows teachers and students to complete
interesting, motivating courses dealing with content they
recognise as relevant to their needs while addressing
language problems successfully.” (M.H. Long and J.M.
Norris, in Byram, Encyclopaedia …, p. 599)
“A task is an activity which requires learners to use language,
with emphasis on meaning, to attain an objective, and which
is intended to lead to or stimulate acquisition.” (Bygate,
Skehan & Swain, 2001)
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