ABOUT US
Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is an educational framework for the theory and practice of teaching second or foreign languages. Based on empirical research, TBLT adopts meaning-based, communicative tasks as the central unit for defining language learning needs, determining curriculum goals, designing activity in the (language) classroom, and assessing language competencies.
IATBLT vzw is an international and worldwide organisation of scholars interested in and active contributors to the field of task-based language teaching (TBLT). IATBLT vzw aims to promote principled approaches to TBLT, and especially to
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(a) promote research, applications, and development of TBLT,
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(b) help to disseminate results and resources, and
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(c) promote international and interdisciplinary cooperation in the field.
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IATBLT vzw aims to pursue these objectives using all the means at its disposal, in particular to:
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oversee the running of an international conference on TBLT every two years, and
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promote the dissemination of information by other appropriate means including its website.
MEMBERSHIP
All participants who registered for the last biennial conference automatically become a member of IATBLT vzw for a period lasting two years (until the eve of the next conference).
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Those interested in becoming a member without having registered for the last biennial conference can become a member by sending an e-mail to iatblt2015@gmail.com and paying the membership fee. The e-mail message should contain name, address, date and place of birth, nationality and affiliation of the applicant. Until the next TBLT conference, the membership fee amounts to 20 USD; students pay only 10 USD (students should mention in their message at which university/school they are enrolled and should specify the program they follow).
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The membership fee must be paid by bank transfer (cash or checks are not accepted) to the bank account of the IATBLT vzw.
Bank name: KBC Bank & Verzekeringen
Address: Monseigneur Ladeuzeplein 15, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
IBAN: BE05 7370 4450 6875 ; BIC/SWIFT: KREDBEBB
(please mention “new member IATBLT + the name of the new member” in the message of your bank transfer)
BOARD
ANDREA REVESZ
PRESIDENT
University College London
ROGER GILABERT
VICE PRESIDENT
University of Barcelona
KOEN VAN GORP
TREASURER
Michigan State
University
NICOLE ZIEGLER
SECRETARY
University of Hawai'i
BOARD MEMBERS
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
FOUNDING MEMBERS
MARTIN EAST
University of Auckland
MARTIN BYGATE, Lancaster University
JOHN NORRIS, Educational Testing Service
KRIS VAN DEN BRANDEN, Katholieke Universitet Leuven
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CURRENT
BOARD MEMBERS
PAST
BOARD MEMBERS
LAURA GURZYNSKI-WEISS, Indiana University
YOUJIN KIM, Georgia State University/KAIST
BARBARA HINGER, University of Innsbruck
KORNWIPA POONPON, Khon Kaen University
EVA KARTCHAVA, Carleton University
BILL DUNN, University of Alberta
ALISON MACKEY, Georgetown University & Lancaster University
NATSUKO SHINTANI, Kobe Gakuin University
​MARTA GONZÁLEZ-LLORET, University of Hawai'i
MEDIA OUTREACH/WEB MASTER
MARTA GONZÁLEZ-LLORET,
University of Hawai'i
The new Executive board was ratified by the IATBLT members at the General Business Meeting during the 2022 TBLT Conference.
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