The paper will introduce seven stages of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and how KLFC implements these stages in its MA program (i.e., Needs analysis, target task types, pedagogic tasks, ...

Kim McDonough is Professor in Applied Linguistics who joined the Department of Education at Concordia in 2010. Her research interests include psycholinguistic approaches to second language acquisition ...

ABSTRACT Achieving communicative competency in English classes has been a key goal in contexts where English is taught as a foreign language (EFL). During this process, however, integrating the ...

A useful source of digital action-oriented tasks These questions have been taken up by a team of specialists in foreign language teaching at Lingu@num, a European strategic partnership for digital ...

Teaching English still an uphill task for developing countries Panel reflects on the problems that teachers face during instruction of another language and their ...

The push for mother-tongue-based Bilingual Education in South Africa is a welcome step, but for it to be effectively implemented there must be alignment between educational policy, school ...

For most developing nations, using English as a medium of teaching to compete with the rest of the world remains a daunting task.