1. Introduction
1.1. Purpose of the Research
English has become the global language used nowadays in commerce, cultural exchanges as well human and diplomatic relations. Hence, English education has become a very important issue for nations all over the world. South Korea as a monolingual country has found in English language a convenient access to the world and this is one of the reasons why t
academic task structure, namely, long sentences, by stating, “Okay, What time is Joe meeting Dave at the park? What time (pause) is Joe meeting Dave at the park?” The teacher’s initiation, “What time is Joe meeting Dave at the park?” asks to students that they are to answer using the correct tense. The teacher enforces Danny’s request for a complete sentence to cue Danny as to the
“There are many more speakers of World Englishes and people who use English for international communication than there are native speakers of it.”
“The present international status of English is rightly justified on the basis of the numerical strength of its non-native speakers; the cross-cultural and localized functional range of the language has developed in various domains.”
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2. Optimal conditions for SLA
A lot of scholars proposed the optimal conditions for SLA. The commonalities among these descriptions of optimal conditions for second language acquisition are clear. They stress the importance of creating opportunities for students to have reason to attend to the language, of giving them ample opportunity to use the language for both meaning-focused communicat
for SLA in TBI
▣ Theory of learning
■ Tasks provide both the input and output processing
■ Task activity are motivational
■ Language difficulty fine-tuned for particular pedagogical purpose
Design
▣ Objectives
Goals in TBLT are ideally to be determined by the specific needs of particular learners. According to Long and Crookes(1993), selection of tasks