Task Based Learning and Strategy Based Instruction in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Abstract

In the present paper the author discusses the innovative methodological approaches of the Task Based Learning (TBL) and the Strategy Based Instruction (SBI) in the field of teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Based on the relevant literature, after the author has identified the aims of a suggested Speaking lesson, he creates the original lesson as an example of implementing TBL and SBI and provides the tasks grading and sequencing criteria.

Keywords: TEFL, TBL, SBI, teaching methodology, speaking skill