Does Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) really lie at the nexus

Does Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) really lie at the nexus of research, theory, and
pedagogy?
-Consideration of its task design in TBLT from a pedagogical point of viewMasakazu Kudara
Cardiff University
Along with the development of second language acquisition research, Task Based Language
Teaching (TBLT) has recently gained prominence in foreign language pedagogy. Claims that
“task-based language teaching lies at the nexus of theory, research, and pedagogy (Adams
2009)” have been made and gradually accepted in particular in the area of English Language
Teaching (ELT). Within Japanese language education, however, these ideas are not fully
understood and particularly the expertise in the task design has not been transferred to
Japanese language pedagogy. Drawing from the work developed in ELT (Samuda et all 2000,
Willis and Willis 2007), This talk will consider a task design from a Japanese pedagogical point
of view.
このセミナーではタスク中心の教授法(TBLT)におけるタスクデザインを教育の観点から
（再）検討します。TBLT が英語教育、または第二言語習得研究の領域で注目されてか
ら久しく、研究、理論、そしてペダゴジーの結合点としてのタスクの役割に注目が集
まっています。しかし、教育の観点からタスクのデザインを見直すと、まだ十分とは
言えず、そのことが TBLT の日本語教育における普及を妨げているとも言えます。この
セミナーでは、英語教育で発展したタスクデザインの考え方を日本語教育のコンテキ
ストで再考する予定です。

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