DEVELOPING B1 LEARNERS’ SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING

Annotatsiya

Speaking is a skill when learning a foreign language. It lets students share their thoughts give opinions and talk with others in situations. Many B1 level English learners find it hard to join conversations negotiate and speak smoothly with confidence. Task Based Language Teaching or TBLT offers an answer by letting students use English to finish real life tasks. This article looks at how TBLT can help B1 learners improve their speaking skills. It answers three questions: what to teach, who to teach and how to teach. The article points out speaking functions such as giving opinions making suggestions negotiating and agreeing or disagreeing as learning goals. It also examines what B1 learners need. Explains the three stages of a TBLT lesson: pre task, task cycle and language focus. Classroom activities such, as planning a weekend trip solving a problem and organizing a group event are given as examples of speaking tasks. The article ends by saying that TBLT helps learners build fluency improve interaction gain confidence and develop speaking ability by using language in ways