8 August 2024
Venue: Wellington Girls’ College, 18 Pipitea St, Thorndon, Wellington
Map of WATESOL Expo, Wellington Girls’ College
Keynote speaker: Associate Professor Jonathan Newton
Title: Task-based language teaching: tips for making it work in the language classroom
Abstract
In this interactive talk, I’ll address the pressing questions and practical concerns of teachers (you) who teach with tasks (or want to), including managing time, using tasks with beginners, and making group-work work. In doing so, I hope to offer bridges to TBLT for everyone from the dilettante to the true believer. If you have any questions that you’d like me to address or experiences you’d like to share, I’d love to hear from you before the talk:
Biodata
Jonathan Newton is Associate Professor and Program Director for the Master of TESOL and Master of Applied Linguistics programs at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. In his career in language teacher education, he has worked alongside teachers from many countries to better understand classroom language teaching and learning, especially in relation to task-based language teaching (TBLT), teaching listening and speaking, teaching vocabulary, and teaching for intercultural capabilities. He has published more than 75 articles and book chapters, and five books, with the two most recent being Using tasks in language teaching (2021), and Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking (2021) (with Paul Nation).