The Effectiveness of Task-Based Language Teaching at the English Lessons

This research focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of Taskbased Language Teaching Method to give instructions how to let students of different language levels master English for communicative purposes.The article analyzes the peculiarities of the use of this method to improve communicative competence by getting learners to solve a task or set of problems by communicating together in the target language.This article highlights the basic principles of TBLT Method which allows students to effectively and quickly achieve the desired result, namely free and fast communication in a foreign language.Among major principles of the method of research there are 1) a meaningful communication and interaction of the students, 2) negotiation through a communicative problem to solve, 3) the usage of real-life tasks, 4) a motivating assessment.The main focus of the TBLT Method is to develop conversational communication skills in a foreign language by usage of close to real-life tasks with situational and interactional authenticity.The first refers to how realistic a task is in terms of its content and aims.The second refers to how realistic a task is in terms of language use.It is stated in the article that open tasks are preferable to be used at the TBL lessons, mainly those tasks for which no right answer or range of right answers can be provided in advance.It is stressed that there are tasks of different levels according to cognitive challenges, i.e. remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating.The last one is the most demanding level of all because it requires the use of the previous five levels in order to synthesize data into a new and original work.This article also enumerates the stages of the lesson build due to TBLT method which include: language practice, pre-task stage, task stage, report stage, analysis and further practice stage when students analyze and study the language connected with the topic of their task and practise English units using them in a given context.Актуальні питання у сучасній науці № 5(23) 2024 745The article also highlights that TBLT method may include different activities, mainly: listing, ordering, ranking, sorting, when students list, and put things in the correct order, or rank things according to some criteria; comparing and contrasting, when students compare different things to find some similarities and differences; information gaps, as well as matching tasks, problem-solving, decision-making tasks, sharing personal experiences, projects and creative tasks, debates, disputes, role-play, simulations etc.