Category: English – SHS

Task-based learning, as part of the framework makes the students realize that learning happens more meaningfully when they immerse themselves, individually or collaboratively, in varied tasks prepared for them as scaf f olds toward constructing new perspectives and strategies to survive in the global arena. All these are focused on the learners’ development of knowledge and skills in a gradual pace until they reach independent learning or transfer of skills. Such activities, including grammar-related ones, are meant to create opportunities for the learners to become communicatively competent, ‘glocal’ individuals—local in concerns but global in visions and perspectives. Moreover, the activities are mapped out aligned to the standards set by the K to 12 curriculum.

• T he course of f ers the learners the ability to use listening and speaking skills ef f ectively to engage in intrapersonal, interpersonal, and group interactions in dif f erent sociolinguistic situations. It incorporates the design of a task-based language approach by Nunan.
• T he design of the instructional material takes into careful consideration the core standards of Senior High
  School and its subsequent articulation with the College Readiness Standards by identifying skills in listening and speaking that will not only allow learners to succeed in college but also help them acquire twenty-first century skills.
• T his book comes with a Learning Guide with Curriculum Map.

• To view reading and writing as a process of making meaning involves aspects of understanding. Reading  provides the writer an extensive range of written texts essential for discourse constructs necessary in the development of language acquisition.
• T his book comes with a Learning Guide with Curriculum Map.

• The units come with related and well-organized lessons aimed to discuss and to give ample practice to learners to tackle challenging reading and writing tasks that they will encounter when they practice their chosen profession in the near future.
• For the teachers, this book gives them flexibility on how they can carry out the lessons and develop their creativity on how they should engage the learners tom be active and at the same time make them realize their
  role not just as a source of knowledge, but facilitators of learning.