what is the difference between task and exercise
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Name: Pipavat Gopi Class: M.A Sem 3 Submitted To :Department Of English
Bhavnagar Uni. Topic Name: What Is The Difference
Between Task And Exercise ?
What is Task ? a piece of work
that must be done, especially one that is difficult or that must be done regularly.
Definition The smallest identifiable and
essential piece of a job that serves as a unit of work, and as a means of differentiating between the various components of a project.
A piece of work to be done or under taken.
A task is any activity that learners engage in to process of learning a language. (Williams and Burden, 1997:168)
An activity which required learners to arrive at an outcome from given information through some process of thought and which allowed teachers to control and regulate that process was regarded as a task.
A task is a communicative act that does not usually have a restrictive focus on a single grammatical structure and has a non-linguistic outcome.
Tasks are free. Students are given free will to use language for communicative purposes.
Focus on multiple skills rather than on one.
Tasks are used in context. Tasks are communicative and
usually authentic. Tasks are meaningful and focus is on
content. Correction of tasks is delayed and is
done through observation and awareness raising
Example of a Task: Pedagogical tasks simulate real-life tasks. Planning a party. Learners will be asked
to do the following: agree on what they need for the
preparation, choose the place where the party will be
held, prepare for the party, –write invitation
letters… write invitation letters…
What is Exercise: A type of physical
activity defined as a planned, structure and repetitive bodily movement done to improve or maintain one or more components of physical fitness
An exercise usually has a restrictive focus on a single language element, and has a linguistic outcome.
A language exercise is guided and controlled by the teacher.
An exercise usually has a restrictive focus on a single language element, and has a linguistic outcome.
The focus is usually on a single skill.
There is no reference to the context. A language exercise is not
communicative and usually not authentic.
It is not meaningful and the focus is on form rather than on content.
Correction is usually done immediately.
Examples of Exercises:
Example of a Language exercise Fill in the blanks with the simple past form of
these verbs: write, go, have, study, buy. Yesterday, Nancy______to school and
______English. Last week, Leila________ an interesting book
about the history of the United States. We______a delicious breakfast this morning. She _______ an email to her pen pal last night.
THANK YOU
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