Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has become one of the major approaches to teaching foreign and second languages in use today. Research within the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and TBLT has provided evidence supporting the benefits of tasks in promoting language learning.
The textbook presents pedagogic and real-world speaking and writing tasks as the basis of its organization. The target audience of the textbook includes high beginner to low intermediate Korean language learners in both Korean as a foreign language (KFL) and Korean as a second language (KSL) contexts. A defining characteristic of the textbook is that all tasks were designed, tested, and revised based on their use in actual Korean language classes. The in-class task performance process offers invaluable opportunities for using the Korean language in meaningful communicative contexts and drives Korean language learners to become Korean language users.
YouJin Kim
Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL, Georgia State University
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University
Bumyong Choi
Senior Lecturer, Korean Language Program Coordinator,
Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Emory University
Ph.D. in Korean, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
(전) Lecturer, Program of African and Asian Languages, Northwestern University
Hyunae Yun (윤현애)
Ph.D. Candidate in Korean as a foreign language teaching,
Department of Korean language and literature, Yonsei University
(전) Instructor, Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Emory University
(전) Instructor, Sungkyun Language Institute
(전) Instructor, Soonchunhyang University
Binna Kim (김빛나)
Instructor, Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Emory University
M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, Second Language Education and Culture Program,
University of Maryland, College Park
Sanghee Kang (강상희)
Doctoral student, Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL, Georgia State University