1. Task-based Learning in a Global World
Michael Svendsen Pedersen
Roskilde University

2. Cooperative learning
…instruction that involves students working in teams to accomplish a common goal, under conditions that include the following elements:
Positive interdependence
Individual accountability
Face-to-face promotive interaction
Appropriate use of collaborative skills
Group processing

3. eCOLE: Pedagogical approach
Learning through group interaction
Learning from discussion with your peers
Student autonomy
Collaborative and communicative skills

4. TASK-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING
Definition:
A goal-oriented communicative activity with a specific outcome, where the emphasis is on exchanging meanings, not producing specific language forms.
Jane Willis (1996): A Framework for Task-Based Learning. Longman

5. DIMENSIONS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

6. LANGUAGE LEARNING: Krashen
Language learning: Declarative knowledge
Language aqusition: Learning Acquisition Device

7. COGNITIVE LEARNING Hypothesis formation Learnability INPUT OUTPUT
Interlanguage
Learning strategies

8. LEARNING/ACQUISITION PROCESS
INPUT
INTAKE
WORKING
MEMORY
OUTPUT
LONGTERM
MEMORY

9. HYPOTHESIS FORMATION the watch ringing his hand sitting
the telephone sitting
the can flying
the can going
he’s flying out
he’s sitting
he’s singing

10. LANGUAGE AWARENESS

11. COMMUNICATIVE LEARNING SPACE: What do we need?
Interaction
Problem-solving
Negotiation of meaning
Learning strategies
Focus on form

12. TASK LESSON PLAN PRE-TASK 1. Eliciting 2. Content preparation
3. Language preparation
4. Task preparation
TASK
1. Task planning
2. Task performance
3. Reflection on learning
POST-TASK
1. Feedback
2. Language focus

13. TASK-TYPES ONE-WAY Information gap CLOSED OPEN Jigsaw puzzle
Problem solving
Decision-making
Opinion gap
TWO-WAY