Task-Based Learning:

Task-Based Learning:

Makes the performance of meaningful tasks central to the learning process.
It is informed by the belief that if students are focused on the completion of a task, they are just as likely to learn language as they are if they are focusing on language forms.

Instead of a language structure or function to be learnt, students are presented with a task they have to perform or a problem they have to solve.
For example, after a class performs some pre-task activities which involve questions and vocabulary checking (i.e. what is this? It's a timetable. What does 'arrival' mean?), they ask and answer questions to solve a problem, such as finding train-timetable information, eg. when does the Brindavan express leave Madras/arrive in Bangalore?.

Task-based learning is sort of like a PPP upside down.
Students are given a task to perform and only when the task has been completed does the teacher discuss the language that was used, making corrections and adjustments which the students' performance of the task has shown to be desirable.

Pre-task: Introduction to topic and task
Task Cycle: Task -> Planning -> Report
Language Focus: Analysis -> Pratice.