Department of studies in Linguistics, University of Mysore, Mysore India.
Second language research and literature have provided a number of definitions for tasks depending on their underlying assumptions, including the scope and perspectives. The descriptions of tasks are illustrated by linguists researching tasks or task-based teaching and learning. Although Task-Based is not a definite method that education is based on a number of assumptions, principles and theories of second language acquisition. In fact, the adoption of Task-Based was a result of a better understanding of the nature and processes of language learning and also because of the inadequacies of other approaches, for instance, Present-Practice-Product. The paper attempts to deal with taskbased, its definition, the role it plays in language teaching in details.
