Task Based language learning, Task completion and Backwash in Second Language Education

Paramasivam Muthusamy; Nallaperumal Nadaraja Pillai; Kumutha Raman; Zhang Hui; Atieh Farashaiyan

doi:10.57239/PJLSS-2025-23.1.00511

Author(s)

Paramasivam Muthusamy Faculty of Education and Liberal Arts, INTI International University, Malaysia

Nallaperumal Nadaraja Pillai Tamil University, Malaysia

Kumutha Raman INTI International University, Malaysia

Zhang Hui Tamil University, Malaysia

Atieh Farashaiyan Zand Institute of Higher Education

Abstract

Task-based language teaching has attracted the attention of second language learning, which was proposed and later developed by second language researchers and educators in reaction to already existing other teacherdominated, form-oriented methods. Since a better understanding of the theories of task-based language teaching is a prerequisite to a better understanding teachers' perceptions and how these perceptions affect their teaching, this paper attempts to deal with the issue of task-based language teaching in the classrooms and second language education.

Publication Details

Page(s) 6549-6562

DOI 10.57239/PJLSS-2025-23.1.00511

Published Journal: Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Year: 2025

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Keywords

Learning Process, Exercises and activities, Backwash

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