Feel free to e-mail

1. University Ready? Re-focusing IEP Students for Excellence
Elisabeth L. Chan
Intensive English Language Institute, University of North Texas
E-mail: elisabeth.chan@unt.edu, ElisabethLChan@gmail.com
More Handouts & Materials: http://www.slideshare.net/ElisabethChan
Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT)
Uses a needs based approach
Helps learners to communicate through interaction in target language
Incorporates authentic texts
Helps learners focus on the learning process
Enhances learners’ personal experiences
Links language in the classroom to the outside
Nunan, D. (2004). Task-Based Language Teaching.Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Task 1: First Week of Classes
• Objective: students learn about degree, as well as course expectations
• Materials:
– Course requirements for students’ majors
– Sample syllabi from gen ed courses
• Time: 20-30 minutes Where can I get materials?
• Possible task outcomes: list requirements
“outside major”, list comparisons between Most course requirements
and syllabi can be found on
a gen ed course and IEP’s expectations
your school’s website.
Textbooks, papers, and class
Task 2: Reading Like You’ve notes can often be borrowed
Never Read Before from student workers,
• Objective: students measure their reading conversation partners, and
student volunteers (Honors
capacity versus actual reading demand
program, Greek
• Materials:
organizations, etc.).
– Textbooks from gen ed courses
Class syllabi, grading rubrics,
– Matching sample class syllabi and occasionally sample
• Time: 20-30 minutes compositions can be
• Possible task outcomes: time reading speed borrowed from instructors by
in gen ed vs. IEP text, list a page count per contacting the departments
week or per exam or instructors directly.
Task 3: English COMP 101
• Objective: students learn essay and grading expectations and measure their
current writing abilities versus actual freshman writing demands
• Materials:
– Freshman English composition (rough, peer, final)
– Composition grading rubric
• Time: 20-30 minutes
• Possible task outcomes: apply the rubric to the rough/final draft and
calculate score
TESOL International Convention 2012
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania