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Task―based teaching approach and its application in oral class of tourism English inhigh vocational college 　　Abstract：This paper provides arguments in favour of using task-based approach in the study of oral class for students major in Tourism English in high vocational college. Tourism industry develops quickly in recent decades， as a result， the need for tour guide increased dramatically. High vocational college always takes the responsibility to meet this need. However， tourists have higher standard for tour guide. Communication ability plays a crucial role for tour guide during their tour. This paper discusses how task-based teaching approach applied to students majoring in Tourism English in high vocational college. 中国论文网 /7/view-7233487.htm 　　Key words：task-based language teaching;oral class;high vocational college 　　中图分类号：G633.41 nbsp; nbsp; 文献标识码：A nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp;文章编号：1005-5312（2016）05-0267-02 　　This paper mainly explains the idea and the principles of the Task-Based Teaching Approach and analyzes the task-based framework in English language teaching and learning of oral class in high vocational college. It explains how the task-based approach is applied in the tourism English oral class. 　　一、Research background 　　Traditional English teaching wastes a lot of time， but does not have a good result. The disadvantage of the traditional concept is that teacher just concerns on teaching grammar rules and vocabulary， and that they do not consider to help the students to transform knowledge into ability. This kind of teaching method goes in the opposite direction to the requirement of English tour guide. Thus， high vocational colleges failed in providing high-quality tour guides to the market. Task-based teaching approach may be a way to tackle the problem. 　　二、Task-based teaching approach 　　The research of the Task-Based Teaching Approach started in 1980s. It was originally put forward by Prabhu （1987） who did a strong communicative experiment calle