Question I want to do some research into Task-based learning and make it relevant to my teaching context, but I’ve no idea where to start.  Please can you advise? Answer It is always difficult getting to grips with a research project, and it is clearly very important to make the right decision at the start […]

Question How can I stop my students speaking their mother tongue during task-based lessons? Answer There is plenty of advice on how to cope with L1 use during pair-work in our book Doing Task-based Teaching, Chapter 10, pages 220 to 221.

Question Why is music especially suited to CLIL? Answer Music helps learners to develop acute listening skills, respond to the ranges in tone, pitch and expression in the voice and concentrate hard on details of pronunciation, stress and rhythm.

 Question What is the relationship between CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and TBL?  I want to teach English through literature and attach a draft plan for a series of task-based lessons. Answer Let me say first of all that your series of lessons seems to be very carefully thought out and well planned. Of […]