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Communicative Tasks and the Language Curriculum
Author(s) -
NUNAN DAVID
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
tesol quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.737
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1545-7249
pISSN - 0039-8322
DOI - 10.2307/3587464
Subject(s) - communicative language teaching , curriculum , linguistics , psychology , sociology , pedagogy , language education , philosophy
Over the last 25 years the communicative task has emerged as a significant building block in the development of language curricula and also as an element for motivating process‐oriented second language acquisition research. This paper reviews the influence of the communicative task on curriculum development and summarizes the research base for task‐based language teaching. In the final part of the paper, an agenda for future research is set out.