This course offers a real alternative for teachers who feel that their teaching relies too heavily on a grammar-focussed syllabus, who want their students to be more motivated and engaged in their language learning, and to better use the target language in real communicative situations,  inside and outside the classroom.

The course focuses on Task-based teaching and learning, a learner-centred methodology which puts communicative language use at its core. Focusing on real-world tasks it provides a robust methodology that gives learners the freedom to use language communicatively and gives teachers principled techniques to work on the development of their students’ language.

The course begins by exploring the core concepts of a task-based approach. Throughout, teachers apply the principles of the methodology to the design of engaging, collaborative tasks. They look at how to sequence tasks into a lesson framework and also consider how the task-based approach can be used with different st