USING TASK-BASED INSTRUCTION IN TEACHING COLORS IN THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS OF ANDIMESHK

This article presents the advantages of using Task -based learning to help learners from Shahid Avini Junior High School at the Educational Department of Andimeshk, Iran infer the rule of the Colors form of adjectives in English. This group of learners was taking English as a Foreign Language (EFL) course that was team taught by two instructors. The course lasted two months, and the instructors covered four different units. It is important to mention that according to scientific studies the methodology based on tasks help learners pay more attention or concentrate more on meaning than Task -based language learning is an approach in which learners concentrate more on meaning than on form. By doing this, students perform different communicative tasks, which happen to be more meaningful because they are close to the learnersʹ reality, instead of doing form -based discrete exercises, which are usually decontextualized and meaningless because they do not see a reason to do them. In the lesson presented in this article, the Shahid Avini Junior High School students were asked to express their own ideas, either orally or in a written mode, about the topic of the lesson, the superlative form of the adjectives in English.