Title: Enhancing Chinese Oral Proficiency in Irish Schools Through Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)

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Creator(s) (alphabetical)

Junming Chen, Rongrong Guo

Organisation(s)

University College Cork, Xiamen University of Technology (XMUT)

Discipline(s)

Education, Teaching & Learning

Topic(s)

Accessibility and Inclusion, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Other, Professional Development, Student Success, Teaching and Learning Practice

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This OER provides a practical Grammar translation and TBLT toolkit for Mandarin teaching, including 15 lesson plans and 50+ task kits. It helps educators in low-time contexts enhance students’ oral proficiency and plurilingual awareness through ready-to-use, adaptable resources.

Benefit of this resource and how to make the best use of it

Educators can directly implement or adapt these Grammar translation and TBLT tasks to make language learning communicative and inclusive. The resource supports collaboration between schools and universities, and integrates Gen-AI to boost resource creation and digital literacy.

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Chen, J., & Guo, R. (18/11/2025). Title: enhancing chinese oral proficiency in irish schools through task-based language teaching (tblt). National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/title-enhancing-chinese-oral-proficiency-in-irish-schools-through-task-based-language-teaching-tblt/ License: Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

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