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Task-Based Language Teaching: Best Practices and Insights from Hong Kong (94658)
Session Chair: Vanessa Balagtas
Monday, 5 January 2026 14:00
Session: Session 2 (Parallel)
Room: Ala Moana Hotel: Ilima Room
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Task based language teaching (TBLT), a whole language approach where all skills of a language are trained together, is a popular pedagogy for language learning in classrooms due to its highly communicative nature. In the Hong Kong university context, various factors, including the complexity of task design and cultural considerations, are major factors a teacher must bear in mind when designing tasks for TBLT classroom. Through the use of self-reflective narratives provided by tertiary teachers, this study provides an overview of TBLT and how it is perceived by Hong Kong university students within English as a medium of instruction (EMI) contexts, including those intending to be English language teachers in the future. This narrative approach, alongside the affordances of TBLT as described by the literature, reveal that the pre-task, while-task, and post-task framework, as applied within Hong Kong university settings, is one at odds with the Hong Kong cultural conception of both “learning” and “teaching”. It is therefore argued that the integration of these cultural concepts into the TBLT framework is therefore necessary for the successful adoption of the TBLT approach to English language teaching and learning.
Authors:
Rickey Lu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Max Diaz, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Rickey Lu is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong
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