This Module was written by Corony Edwards, based on the book A Framework for Task-based Learning by Jane Willis. The material from the book has been summarized and re-organized for interactive online or CD-ROM study, with new examples and sections added, and accompanied by video clips of an interview with Jane in which she talks about various aspects of task-based learning (TBL).

Corony Edwards teaches in the Centre for English Language Studies at the University of Birmingham. A trained EFL teacher and trainer since 1986, she has run courses and workshops for language teachers in many countries, including Japan, Korea, Argentina, Hungary and Hong Kong. She is currently a course tutor and materials writer for a distance learning MA in TEFL, and is the Director of Learning and Teaching for the School of Humanities. Her research interests are language teacher learning and the impact of teacher development programmes. She has published a number of articles on different aspects of language teacher preparation and development.
Contact: c.j.edwards@bham.ac.uk

Jane Willis has worked as a language teacher and trainer in Africa, Southern Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia. After a spell of freelance writing, she joined Aston University in the UK where she still works on a part-time basis teaching on their Masters in TESOL/TESP Distance Learning programmes. She travels widely, enjoys learning languages and is particularly interested in research into lexical chunks. Her books include Teaching English through English (Longman) and A Framework for Task-Based Learning (Longman), both of which won the English Speaking Union Duke of Edinburgh award; Challenge and Change in Language Teaching, jointly edited with her husband, Dave Willis, (Heinemann) and, more recently, co-authored with Mary Slattery, English For Primary Teachers: A handbook of activities and classroom language (OUP) which won two out of the three major ELT prizes in 2002.
Contact: j.r.willis@aston.ac.uk