STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES FOR EFFECTIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The article deals with describing a practical method of teaching a foreign language, investigated in the articles of foreign teachers. In task-based learning (TBL), the central focus of the lesson is the task itself, not a grammar point or a lexical area, and the objective is not to ‘learn the structure’ but to ‘complete the task’, because as it is stated by some specialists, restricting their experience to single pieces of target language is unnatural. The language, therefore becomes an instrument of communication, whose purpose is to help complete the task successfully. The students can use any language they need to reach their objective. They decide on their own way of completing it, using the language they see fit. The advantage of TBL over more traditional methods is, as it is defined, that it allows students to focus on real communication before doing any serious language analysis. It focuses on students’ needs by putting them into authentic communicative situations and allowing them to use all their language resources to deal with them. TBL makes a task the central focus of a lesson. TBL focuses primarily on the achievement of realistic objectives, and then on the language that is needed to achieve those objectives.  It treats language as an instrument to complete a given objective rather than an isolated grammar point or lexical set to learn and practise. It gives plenty of opportunity for communication in authentic contexts and give the learner freedom to use the linguistic resources he/she has, and then reflect on what they learned or need to learn. The advantage of TBL over more traditional methods is, as it is defined, that it allows students to focus on real communication before doing any serious language analysis. It focuses on students’ needs by putting them into authentic communicative situations and allowing them to use all their language resources to deal with them.