Doing Task-Based Teaching

by Dave Willis, Jane Willis

Overview

This book provides teachers with a better understanding of task-based learning and how it works, including how to incorporate tasks with textbook material.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780194422109
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/26/2007
Series:	Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	9.62(w) x 6.61(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Dave Willis began his TEFL career working overseas as a teacher in Ghana and Cyprus. He joined the British Council and worked for twenty years as an English Language Officer in Iran, Singapore and London. From 1990 to 2000 he worked as a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Studies, at Birmingham University, working mainly on MA TEFL/TESOL programmes. He has published widely on discourse analysis, the subject of his PhD thesis at Birmingham, on the description of grammar and lexis for ELT, and on task-based methodology. He is now retired from full time work, but maintains an active interest in ELT by researching, writing and travelling widely as a consultant and to international conferences. Currently his main area of interest is how to integrate grammar and lexis into a task-based approach.