English Language Teaching and Tasks
Keywords:
Communicative Approach, Communication Skills, ELT-English Language Teaching, English as a Second Language, Target Language, TasksAbstract
With the globalization in all the fields, it is necessary to bring changes in learning experience. Every learning experience can be moreeffective when it is enjoyable and learner-centered. To learn English as a second language can bring changes in learning experience and evaluation when it involves tasks aiming at enhancing communication skills of students in English. Communicative approach is a new way to teach and learn English as a second language. In communicative classroom the chief focus is learning experience through tasks. Here the teacher facilitates and provide opportunities to the learners to communicate in the target language i.e. English. Learning the language by doing tasks provides a new experience to the learners. The present paper is focusing on different tasks for teaching English.
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