| Contents | 第1-8页 |
| Tables and Figures | 第8-9页 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 第9-12页 |
| 1．1 The Background of the Research | 第9-10页 |
| 1．2 The Significance of the Research Problem | 第10-12页 |
| 2 RATIONALE FOR TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING | 第12-30页 |
| 2．1 Denning Tasks in Foreign Language Teaching | 第12-16页 |
| 2．1．1 The Dynamic and Interaction Components in Tasks | 第15-16页 |
| 2．2 Underpinning Theories | 第16-18页 |
| 2．2．1 The Input Hypothesis | 第16-17页 |
| 2．2．2 The Interaction Hypothesis | 第17-18页 |
| 2．3 Viewing Tasks from a Cognitive Perspective | 第18-23页 |
| 2．3．1 Bruner' s Constructivist Theory | 第18-19页 |
| 2．3．2 Skehan's Cognitive Approach | 第19-21页 |
| 2．3．3 Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development | 第21-22页 |
| 2．3．4 Feuerstein's Cognitive Map | 第22-23页 |
| 2．4 The Syllabus of Task-Based Language Teaching | 第23-28页 |
| 2．4．1 The Principles of Designing Tasks for the English Classroom | 第24-27页 |
| 2．4．2 The Framework of Presenting Tasks in the English Classroom | 第27-28页 |
| 2．5 The Features of Task-Based Language Teaching | 第28-30页 |
| 3 IMPLEMENTING TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM | 第30-50页 |
| 3．1 The Features of the Current Textbooks for Junior English | 第30-31页 |
| 3．2 The Traditional Teaching-Five-Step Teaching Model | 第31-33页 |
| 3．3 Different Teaching Procedures, Different Teaching Ideas | 第33-34页 |
| 3．3．1 Learning by Doing vs Learning by Teaching | 第33页 |
| 3．3．2 Focusing on Meaning vs Focusing on Form | 第33-34页 |
| 3．4 The Problems in the Traditional Teaching | 第34-35页 |
| 3．5 The Advantages of Task-Based Language Teaching | 第35-37页 |
| 3．6 The Problems in Task-Based Language Teaching | 第37-38页 |
| 3．7 A Practical Task-Based Language Teaching Model in the Junior High School | 第38-45页 |
| 3．7．1 An (Organic Synthesis of the Traditional Teaching and Task-Based Language Teaching | 第39页 |
| 3．7．2 Task-Based Language Teaching Model in the Junior High School | 第39-44页 |
| 3．7．3 Some Concerns in Implementing the Task-Based Language Teaching Model in the English Classroom | 第44-45页 |
| 3．8 An Experiment | 第45-50页 |
| 3．8．1 The Aim of the Experiment | 第46页 |
| 3．8．2 Procedure | 第46-48页 |
| 3．8．3 Results | 第48-50页 |
| 4 DISCUSSIONS | 第50-55页 |
| 4．1 The Reasons for the Successful Experiment | 第50-51页 |
| 4．2 Problems with Task-Based Language Teaching yet to Be Solved | 第51-52页 |
| 4．3 Suggestions on Task-Based Language Teaching | 第52-55页 |
| 4．3．1 Suitable Types of Tasks in the English Classroom | 第53-54页 |
| 4．3．2 Assessments on Task Performances | 第54-55页 |
| 5 CONCLUSIONS | 第55-57页 |
| REFERENCES | 第57-61页 |
