This seminar will be conducted by 3-hour online Zoom sessions for four days: Saturday, July 5, Sunday, July 6, Saturday, July 12 and Sunday, July 13 from 18:00 to 21:00 (JST).  Students taking this seminar for credit must attend all four days. Students can add/drop this seminar course by 22:00 on Saturday, July 5.

The pre sign-up (or course registration for those who are taking this seminar for credit) is required for anybody attending the public session on Saturday, July 5 from 18:00 to 21:00. The sign-up process must be completed through the "Distinguished Lecturer Series Seminar Sign-Up Form" that is available on TUJ Grad Ed website. The sign-up deadline is Friday, July 4 at 12:00. The public session Zoom link will be provided to those people who completed the online sign-up (or course registration) process by 18:00 on Friday, July 4. The zoom link for the remaining sessions will be provided to the creditors and auditors between 13:00 to 14:00 on Sunday, July 6.

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is an increasingly popular approach to second and foreign language education across the globe. Based on insights from the fields of general education, second language (L2) acquisition research, and L2 pedagogy, TBLT uses communicative tasks as the defining unit for L2 curriculum and syllabus design. In this seminar, we will first discuss theoretical, empirical, and practical rationales for task-based language learning and teaching. Then, we will review some key steps involved in the development of task-based curricula, from carrying out a task-based needs analysis to deriving and sequencing pedagogic tasks, implementing task-based syllabuses and assessing student performance. Throughout the course, we will draw on recent research on TBLT and discuss how TBLT principles can be applied in practice. When considering practical applications, we will pay particular attention to the design and implementation of input-based tasks (reading, listening, and multimodal tasks), given their special importance in early stages of TBLT.