Tasks: a reply to Pauline Foster

by John Clegg

This is a letter from John Clegg to the editor of ELTJ, written as a response to Pauline Foster's Key concept "Task-based learning and pedagogy". You can view this Key Concept and other material relating to the debate about task-based learning on the Oxford Teachers' Club site.
John Clegg's letter puts forward a rationale for the pragmatic approach and an expression of the belief that developments in classroom teaching should be based in teachers' experience rather than external prescriptions.

Taken from ELT Journal Volume 53/3 (July 1999).

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You might be interested to know that the search function on version 2 of the CD-ROM shows that 491 out of the 699 documents included contain the word 'task'. These include:

Task-based interaction by Paul Seedhouse
(Volume 53/3: July 1999)

The task as a unit for teacher development by Lynne Cameron
(Volume 57/4: October 1997)

Key concept: Bottom up and top down processing
by John Field (Volume 53/4: October 1999)