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<p>From the perspective of Activity Theory (AT), this paper analyses the author's task-based teaching practice of English journal and newspaper reading and adopts a qualitative study approach to examine the influence of task design on students’ reading competence development. The tasks are designed mainly in the form of group work, highlighting the students as the subject and the regulating role of mediating artefacts, community, rules and division of labour. The data of students’ reflection journals, reading reports and group work records show that after the training of a series of tasks for eight units, students’ ability in reading English newspapers has been greatly developed, and they are also more confident in speaking and writing.</p>
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From the perspective of Activity Theory (AT), this paper analyses the author's task-based teaching practice of English journal and newspaper reading and adopts a qualitative study approach to examine the influence of task design on students’ reading competence development. The tasks are designed mainly in the form of group work, highlighting the students as the subject and the regulating role of mediating artefacts, community, rules and division of labour. The data of students’ reflection journals, reading reports and group work records show that after the training of a series of tasks for eight units, students’ ability in reading English newspapers has been greatly developed, and they are also more confident in speaking and writing.

Task design and analysis of English reading teaching from the perspective of Activity Theory

Department of Foreign Languages Teaching and Research

Information Technology Department, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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From the perspective of Activity Theory (AT), this paper analyses the author's task-based teaching practice of English journal and newspaper reading and adopts...

Task design and analysis of English reading teaching from the perspective of Activity Theory

Publicado en línea: 10 nov 2021

Páginas: 261 - 268

Recibido: 22 feb 2021

Aceptado: 29 may 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2021.2.00043

Palabras clave
English journal and newspaper reading, Activity Theory, task-based teaching

© 2021 Meng Chen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Task design and analysis of English reading teaching from the perspective of Activity Theory

Publicado en línea: 10 nov 2021

Páginas: 261 - 268

Recibido: 22 feb 2021

Aceptado: 29 may 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2021.2.00043

Palabras claveEnglish journal and newspaper reading, Activity Theory, task-based teaching

© 2021 Meng Chen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Palabras clave
English journal and newspaper reading, Activity Theory, task-based teaching