Proposals for Task-Based Teaching of English Based on Cognitive Grammar

Abstract

Task-oriented language education is based on the ideation of the many communication approaches available, which is why it is primarily focused on communication. However, many teachers, aiming to develop communication skills, tend to avoid grammar teaching. This study goes much further, arguing that grammar is as significant as lexis (although in a more abstract way), and that teaching grammar should thus, go along with teaching communication. In our proposals, we first, focus on the development and advantages of task-based language teaching with the role of grammar; then, we offer an introduction to cognitive grammar and its applications and additionally outline their potential for the foreign language classroom. In conclusion, a mixture of the two approaches of task-based language teaching and applied cognitive grammar will be virtually planned to show how one may benefit from the other and to explain in detail how the grammatical role can be implemented in a task-based action through a communicative situation.