Task-based Language Teaching and Focus on Form

Abstract

This paper examines the role of focus on form in Task- based language teaching (TBLT). It discusses the importance of TBLT with regard to second language acquisition and language pedagogy. A brief review of the relevant literature with regard to communicative tasks and necessity of focus on form in TBLT will be provided and two important ways through which focus on form can be integrated into second language teaching will be introduced and discussed.