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Assalamualaikum Task-based Syllabus6th GroupNurlia Ayu Aprliani 11221050Yeni Nur11221054Tissa Azhar 11221061Mira Agustina11221072Nur Aini 11221075What is Task-based Syllabus?A task-based syllabus is one in which the content of the teaching is a series of complex and purposeful tasks that the students want or need to perform with the language they are learning. Task-based approaches syllabus, which create a favorable condition and facilitate language development. How and Why Task-based Syllabus Brought About?Theories of language: Language is primarily a means of making meaning.Multiple models of language inform TBL: structural, functional and interactional models of language.Lexical units are central in language use and language learning.Conversation is the central focus of language and the keystone of language acquisition.

b) Theories of learning:Tasks provide both the input and output processing necessary for language acquisition.Task activity and achievement are motivational.Learning difficulty can be negotiated and fine-tuned for particular pedagogical purposes.

Strength of Task-based SyllabusCurrently second language teaching methods aim at developing students communicative competence that will enable them to communicate effectively in real communicating world.Task based learning (TBL) requires students to engage in interaction in order to fulfill a task. So in this way the underlying language systems will be developed while students focus on the process of performing the task.The most active element in the process of the task-based teaching is the learners creativity. By exploiting this kind of creativity, we make learning significantly more efficient and more interesting.It is believed that the task-based syllabus has a richer potential for promoting successful second language learning than do other syllabus types.Weakness of Task-based SyllabusThe tasks must be suitable for the language learners not too difficult and not too simple, so in this case how to make a balance about these two tendencies comes ambiguously.Aspects of task difficulty should be considered so that task implementation can have a positive effect on learning and teaching. But it is too difficult to cover all aspects thoroughly.Requires a high level of creativity on the part of the teacher.As it needs group/individual responsibility, students may resist and object to this kind of syllabus.

Method of task-based syllabusCommunicative methodClass sizeSmall group discussion

assessmentLearners can see a model of the activity they are to do first, prepare a report how they completed a task, or a project, and the teacher can record this report and analyze it for further work.Examples of Task-based SyllabusPreparing a handbook to the school to be used by other students. Producing an employment procedure guide- where to go, what to do, whom to talk to.Doing a price comparison survey of food stores. Writing term papers for other content classes. Do you have any questions?Conclusion Task-based syllabus is a set of planning or set of instructional materials based the aims that have been established for a language program. Task-based syllabus can be used in teaching or learning the communicative purposes. It is organized around tasks that students will complete in the target language. A task is an activity or goal that is carried out using language such as finding a solution to a puzzle, reading a map and giving directions, or reading a set of instructions and assembling a toy (Richard 2001: 161).A task-based syllabus, however, is one based on tasks that have been specially designed to facilitate second language learning and one in each tasks or activities are the basic unit of syllabus design. A number of second language acquisition theorists have proposed tasks as a basis for syllabus planning. Long and Crookes (1991, 43 in Richard 2001) claim that tasks: "provide a vehicle for the presentation of appropriate target language samples to learners input which they will inevitably reshape via application of general cognitive processing capacities and for the delivery of comprehension and production opportunities of negotiable difficulty."

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