"Let's talk tasks"
A task from the Task Bank is featured in open access format in each issue of the TASK journal by John Benjamins. Click on the links below for direct access!
"Task Bank Live" Workshops
These free, online workshops are given synchronously online by a task-based expert once per month during the academic year. Have an idea for a future workshop? Email us at [email protected]!
Videos from prior workshops:
- That first lesson of a new task: Ideas for maximizing student output with Beth Maldonado (March 10, 2026)
- Multimodal tasks for adolescent learners: Examples for a task-based Chinese context with Keven Fedewa (February 27, 2026)
- Task-based language assessment in high-stakes exam settings with Eman Mahmoud (January 21, 2026)
- Multimodal input tasks in teacher training with Valentina Morgana (December 11, 2025)
- Developing task-based materials for social justice with Muriel Gallego (November 19, 2025)
- TBLT from discovery to practice with Julián Angulo (October 24, 2025)
- Tasks and Learner Individual Differences with Shaofeng Li (April 15, 2025)
- Program-level assessment with Matt Coss (March 7, 2025)
- Technology-mediated TBLT with Nicole Ziegler (February 20, 2025)
- Celebrating the launch of the TBLTea YouTube Channel with Emilia Ilhana Mahiques, Jude Krushnowski, Alan van den Arend, Claudia Fernandez, and Laura Gurzynski-Weiss (January 30, 2025)
- Tasks for neurodivergent learners: Judit Kormos (September 19, 2024)
- Incorporating tasks in post-secondary courses: Laura Gurzynski-Weiss (October 10, 2024)
- Learner engagement in tasks: Gabriel Michaud (November 22, 2024)
- Tasks for young learners: Akiko Fujii (December 11, 2024)
- The TBLT Task Bank Live: Sharing your work: Laura Gurzynski-Weiss & Caitlyn Pineault (September 20, 2023)
- Input-based tasks: Andrea Révész (October 19, 2023)
- Critical tasks: Ellen J. Serafini (November 15, 2023)
- Pronunciation-focused tasks: Ingrid Mora-Plaza (December 12, 2023)
- Taskifying your existing materials: Claudia Fernández (January 30, 2024)
- Task-based assessment: Ali Shehadeh (February 14, 2024)
- Pragmatics-focused tasks: YouJin Kim and Naoko Taguchi (March 27, 2024)
- Task-based teacher training: Lara Bryfonski & Caitlyn Pineault (April 17, 2024)
Task Bank in research
Check out the latest research using the Task Bank!
Brunfaut, T., Kormos, J., Allan, W., Villa Larenas, S., & Gurzynski-Weiss, L. (2025). Let's talk tasks: A conversation between researchers, language teachers, and teacher trainers. In X. Gutiérrez, L. Bryfonski, & G. Ogilvie (Eds.), Teacher education for task-based language teaching, Special Issue of TASK, 5(2), 360-374. https://doi.org/10.1075/task.00042.bru
Gurzynski-Weiss, L., Bryfonski, L., & S Reagan, D. (in press). Teacher individual differences and task adaptations: Making use of the TBLT Language Learning Task Bank. In S. Li (Ed.), Individual differences in task-based language teaching. John Benjamins. Corresponding materials available here, on IRIS, and on OASIS.
Gurzynski-Weiss, L., & Pineault, C. (2025). Open-access sites as catalysts for teacher education. In X. Gutiérrez, L. Bryfonski, & G. Ogilvie (Eds.), Teacher education for task-based language teaching, Special Issue of TASK, 5(2), 316-344. https://doi.org/10.1075/task.25003.gur
Task Bank in teaching
Videos introducing the Task Bank, example projects for in-class use of the Task Bank, and
more, coming soon!
Presentations on the Task Bank
Upcoming Presentations
- American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference
2025
- Conference details
- Date: March 22-25, 2025
- Location: Denver, USA
- Individual Paper Sessions
- Title: What makes a task a task for novice teachers? Developing TBLT knowledge through collaborative task review
- Presenters: Lara Bryfonski, Caitlyn Pineault, Laura Gurzynski-Weiss
- Conference details
- International Association of Task-Based
Language Teaching (IATBLT) Conference 2025
- Conference details
- Date: April 2-4, 2025
- Location: Groningen, Netherlands
- Individual Paper Sessions
- Title: Open-access sites as catalysts for empirical and pedagogical change: Insights from the TBLT Task Bank
- Presenter: Laura Gurzynski-Weiss
- Conference details
Past Presentations
- International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) 21st World Congress
- Conference details
- Theme: Linguistic diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability
- Date: 11-16 August 2024
- Location: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia
- Conference details
- Symposium: Open scholarship initiatives in applied linguistics: Towards inclusive and equitable scholarship. AILA 2024
Semester Videos
Semester Research Presented
- Bryfonski, L. Pineault, C., & Gurzynski-Weiss, L. (March 24). What makes a task a task for novice teachers? Developing TBLT knowledge through collaborative task review [Paper session]. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. Denver, USA.
- Gurzynski-Weiss, L. (2025, April 3). Open-access sites as catalysts for empirical and pedagogical change: Insights from the TBLT Task Bank [Paper session]. International Association for Task-Based Language Teaching (IATBLT). Groningen, The Netherlands.