The virtual course "Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach - Virtual Course - Coursera", is a course with different contents and offers video classes of Approx. 23 hours to complete. Explore its essential features, and click the orange button to get detailed information on the Coursera e-Learning platform
This course explores ways to teach reading skills in English as a Second and Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) using a task-based approach.
You will be introduced to the concept of homework and the key principles of Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning (TBLT).
TBLT uses communicative tasks as the key unit to create language learning activities.
It will also examine the role of reading in real life and in second and foreign language teaching and current thinking about the interface between TBLT and second language reading.
You will explore how TBLT and second language reading instruction can be successfully integrated into practice by analyzing task-based reading materials.
The course culminates in the creation of task-based materials to teach reading in their own language teaching contexts.
After completing the course, you will be able to: 1.
Explain the main components and principles of a task-based approach to language teaching; two.
Explain the main issues involved in teaching reading; 3.
Illustrate connections between TBLT approaches and reading instruction; Four.
Integrate homework into your own teaching; 5.
Identify reading texts that are suitable for the construction of tasks; and 6.
Build assignments and reading sequences to use in your own classroom.
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