Discovering the approaches of activity centered language teaching programmes

Teaching language through activity based tasks has been proved to be effective in the recent years. Activity in the context of language teaching is a term that denotes an educational task or a set of tasks designed to promote communicative experience and knowledge of the usage of the second language. A clear knowledge over the function of activities may help a language trainer to execute with clear plan and objective. Activities employed for the purpose of teaching language may be divided as common activities and activities devised by the trainer. This paper brings out the nuances of these activities such as, their role, utility and limitations. It also brings out the significance of blending these activities to train the age group of 18–22 years for effective learning of the second language.