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Nine-unit, eleven-lesson task-based speaking programme organised by function and genre

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Description

The programme taught speaking skills through "nine units comprising eleven lessons", each unit focusing on "a particular main function or a certain spoken genre". Across the lessons students performed tasks such as describing and finding differences, discussing ideas and opinions, solving problems, conducting interviews, exchanging information in information-gap tasks, narrating stories to peers, and role-playing social and interactional functions. Sample lessons were reviewed by four ESL specialists, who approved the programme and suggested giving students more practice and allocating more teaching time.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Each unit focuses on a particular main function or spoken genre
  • Tasks spanning description, discussion, problem solving, interviewing, information gap, narration and role play

Constraints

  • Sample lessons were reviewed by four ESL specialists, who suggested more practice and more teaching time would be appropriate

Target Learners

  • first-year university ESL students

Learning Goals

  • overall speaking proficiency
  • social and interactional spoken functions

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Key Sources

  • Mohammad Mohammadipour & Sabariah MD Rashid. (2015). The Impact of Task-Based Instruction Program on Fostering ESL Learners' Speaking Ability: A Cognitive Approach. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.6n.2p.113
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title Nine-unit, eleven-lesson task-based speaking programme organised by function and genre
description The programme taught speaking skills through "nine units comprising eleven lessons", each unit focusing on "a particular main function or a certain spoken genre".
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