Task-Based Teaching: An Investigation through Project Work in the English Department of Tizi-ouzou

Résumé

The purpose of the present paper is to expose and discuss an experiment in foreign language teaching which has been conducted in the department of English of Tizi-ouzou University. This experiment is concerned with the teaching of communication methodology (journalism) and drama for fourth year students. It adopts the approach called task-based teaching (CBT) and aims at paving the way to the implementation of the BMD (Bachelor, Master’s, and Doctorate) pedagogy in the department.

The discussion of the results reached after two years of the implementation of drama and communication workshops requires the following: One, the exposition of the theory which informs them; Two, elucidating the linkages that tie this theory to the BMD system; Three, the description of the projects and their outcome. Obviously, the scheme of organisation followed in this paper follows this order.

  

The purpose of the present paper is to expose and discuss an experiment in foreign language teaching which has been conducted in the department of English of Tizi-ouzou University. This experiment is concerned with the teaching of communication methodology (journalism) and drama for fourth year students. It adopts the approach called task-based teaching (CBT) and aims at paving the way to the implementation of the BMD (Bachelor, Master’s, and Doctorate) pedagogy in the department.

The discussion of the results reached after two years of the implementation of drama and communication workshops requires the following: One, the exposition of the theory which informs them; Two, elucidating the linkages that tie this theory to the BMD system; Three, the description of the projects and their outcome. Obviously, the scheme of organisation followed in this paper follows this order.