The Design of a Task-based Oral Coursebook Relating to Local Context
Abstract: This project explores to design a more effective oral English course book relating to local context and based on the Task-based Approach, the internationally up-to-date language teaching approach. This course book Speaking English in Shenzhen is designed for those, who work and live in Shenzhen with senior middle school or college education background, but are urgent to develop their oral English for communicative purposes.
The theme of Chapter 8 is Tourism in Shenzhen. The author selects listening and reading materials about travel mainly relating to Shenzhen context. Derived from sufficient interesting and informative comprehensible materials on the topics of Shenzhen’s tourist attractions, the author designs varied tasks such as exchanging ideas or opinions about the better place to visit, discussing the best routes to travel around Shenzhen, debating on the effect of the development of Shenzhen’s tourism. It is claimed by completing the tasks in their real life that learners of Shenzhen can develop their fluency in speaking English with more interest, passion and confidence.
Keywords: task-based language learning, task, local context, oral coursebook, tourism in Shenzhen
与当地语境有关任务型口语教材设计
摘 要 该口语教材《深圳人讲英语》是以深圳本土为背景，运用当前国际上最新倡导的“任务型学习”方法而设计和编写的，旨在能够更有效地帮助具有中等水平英语基础的在深圳生活和工作的人士提高口语能力的使用的特色教材。
该教材的第八章主题是深圳旅游。以深圳为背景，通过提供一些难易程度相当的丰富有趣的听力和阅读材料，作者设计了各种类型的任务，例如交流旅游的经验，讨论深圳的旅游景点以及深圳旅游业带来的影响等等。任务的设计主要是为了使学习者能通过完成与实际生活相关的任务以增强他们对学习英语的兴趣和自信心，从而习得英语，提高运用英语的口语能力。
关 键 词 任务型语言学习;任务;地方特色;口语教材;深圳旅游
Contents
Abstract 1
摘 要 1
Rationale on the course design 2
1 Background of the oral course design 2
2 Needs analysis 2
3 Theoretical background 3
4 Features of the coursebook 5
5 Contents of the coursebook 5
6 Module of the design for each chapter 6
Bibliography 6
Chapter 8 Tourism 8
Content Table 8
Bibliography 29
Acknowledgements 29
