Task-Based Teaching beyond Classroom: A Practical Way to Promote Autonomous Learning Ability

As the internet and computers are commonly used in language teaching, autonomous learning is advocated and supported by most 12 teachers and learners. This research aims to adopt task-based teaching through the aid of computer to promote students' autonomous learning and to improve students' language skill by designing tasks and leaving part of the tasks to students for their autonomous learning. Effectiveness of this approach was assessed using the comparisons of language skills, examination results and autonomous learning time.