APPLYING COMMUNITY LEARNING VIA LEARNING TASKS IN EFL CLASSES

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This paper is in the fields of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), task-based learning (TBL), focusing on Community Learning (CL) which is based on the theoretical background of Richard-Amato (1996), Ashworth (1985) and Brown (1994). In light of CL, learning tasks in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classes are somehow similar to daily activities in the real world, or, in other words, the class itself is a miniature of the society in which, via learning tasks, students are seen as citizens who are taking part in various social activities. The main focuses of the paper are classroom interaction which pays attention to the learning process, and learners’ communicative competence which lays emphasis on the learner’s language skills. The paper provides EFL teachers with many CL tasks that might help them create an effective classroom interaction. It also helps EFL students improve their communicative competence that might be beneficial for them to integrate into a global working environment in the future.