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Free webinar sponsored by the Center for Language Instruction and Coordination at the University of Illinois: "Task-based Language Teaching: Why, What, and How"

Presenter: Dr. Julio Torres (University of California, Irvine)
Date: Thursday October 4, 2018. 

Description: This webinar aims to provide an overview of task-based language teaching (TBLT), which adopts meaning-based, communicative tasks, as the central unit for defining learning needs, determining curriculum goals, and assessing language competencies. The presenter will begin with a rationale for adopting TBLT as a viable pedagogical approach to teaching second/heritage languages. Participants will also get an overview of a TBLT program. Most of the webinar will be devoted to the design of task-based lessons, which include the criteria for creating a task as well as pre-task and post-task cycles to support the use of the task for instructional purposes. Examples will be provided to illustrate these three phases of task-based instruction.

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