An Empirical Study on Promoting Students'Active Participation under'Task-based Teaching'in Adult ESL Classrooms

摘要

This paper focuses on a beginner adult ESL classroom aiming to enhance their participation under the guidance of"task-based teaching"method. By incorporating three strategies of priming students to elicit their prior knowledge on certain topic, de?signing a sequence of tasks to scaffold students for the final produce and modelling with lower level students to ensure their under?standing of task instructions, the activeness could see a significant increase.