任務(wù)型教學(xué)又稱基于任務(wù)的教學(xué)法，是指教師通過引導(dǎo)語言學(xué)習(xí)者在課堂上完成任務(wù)來進(jìn)行的教學(xué)。這是20世紀(jì)80年代興起的一種強(qiáng)調(diào)“在做中學(xué)”（learning by doing）的語言教學(xué)方法，是交際教學(xué)法的發(fā)展，在世界語言教育界引起了人們的廣泛關(guān)注。
探究式教學(xué)法是典型的做中學(xué)（Learning by doing）教學(xué)法，在教學(xué)中極其常用。該教學(xué)法又稱發(fā)現(xiàn)法和研究法，是教師通過啟發(fā)式問題引導(dǎo)學(xué)生通過閱讀、觀察、實驗、思考、討論等途徑主動探究，自行發(fā)現(xiàn)并掌握知識和技能的一種方法。
探究式教學(xué)法由以下幾個步驟組成：
Step 1Introduction: Hook the students’ interest by asking them wellprepared questions.
Step 2Hypothesis: Activating their prior knowledge might be useful.
Step 3Planning.
Step 4Research / Exploration / Investigation.
Step 5Analysis / Discussion / Reflection.
Step 6Present and share their findings (pairgroupclass) and take time to reflect.
Throughout my years of teaching English in China, I have creatively tried to incorporate children’s different strengths and learning styles to help them to remember spelling words.
游戲：Rainbow Writing
Simply writing the spelling words many times is a timehonoured way of learning spelling; but this could be varied by asking the children to write over the top of the same word with a different coloured pen or pencil. Another variation is to make a poster with the word written many different times in different colours and in different styles. Children who are artistic, have tended to enjoy doing this.