Reading: Principles & examples of TBLT materials

Required reading

*A final version of this article has now been published. Full reference:

• Long, M. H. (2020). Optimal input for language learning: Genuine, simplified, elaborated, or modified elaborated? Language Teaching, 53(2), 169–182. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444819000466

**Further online TBLT materials and/or ideas to explore for the forum task include the following. Please note that some materials related to an ‘integrated’ (or ‘weak’) approach to TBLT.

• Tasks from the Indiana Task Bank
• TBLT ‘On the fly’: The vendor-client relationship (FREEED)
• Helping students through task-based stages (Marc Jones via FREEED)
• Further TBLT lesson ideas from Marc Jones (Freelance Teacher Self-Development)
• Task-Based Lessons for Online Teaching (Fluency First blog)
• TBLT lesson ideas from Jane and Dave Willis (Willis ELT)