商务英语教学中的任务型语言教学探讨

文/杨凌云,湖北省孝感市湖北工程学院新技术学院

I Preface

Business English is a kind of English that is applied in business environment.It requires that students be taught in the target language, through the tasks and activities aimed at meaningful communication, so that students can consolidate and strengthen their skills in practice and application, and internalize cognitive learning.The purpose of business English teaching is to cultivate students' ability to actually use the language in a specific business environment.Therefore, business English teaching is more effective than traditional English teaching, which emphasizes the effectiveness of use of target language communication, i.e. the accuracy, propriety and fluency of communication.However, in the traditional teaching methods, students are often used to passively listening, note taking, rarely have the opportunity to participate in classroom, classroom atmosphere is not enough active, the dominant position of students in teaching is often neglected.This kind of teaching mode leads students to have poor practical business English and can not achieve the teaching goal of business English well.Therefore, in recent years, scholars have persistently taskbased teaching method as a new teaching idea is introduced into the business English teaching activities, to cultivate senior practical business English talent to explore an effective way.

II Task-based language teaching

2.1 Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is an emerging teaching approach developed in the 1980s.It is motivated by the desire to accomplish specific tasks, and the process of completing tasks by language is to demonstrate the results of tasks to reflect the effectiveness of teaching. In the process of carrying out the task-based teaching method, teachers must change the teaching concept and change the teaching mode, in order to create the relaxed teaching atmosphere in the English class.

2.2 The teaching idea of task-based teaching emphasizes students as the main body, advocate "meaning first, use the first" teaching principle, it advocates experience, practice, participation, communication and cooperation of learning style.Students learn the language, use language, discover problems,find the rules, and summarize knowledge and experience successfully in the task learning activities that are carefully designed by teachers or teaching materials.The cultivation of students' ability of "autonomy, cooperation and exploration"has a positive influence.

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