JALT2025 - Tokyo

Introducing the Collins COBUILD English Course by Dave and Jane Willis

Oct 31, 2025, 4:35 PM

1h

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Practice-oriented Workshop (60-minutes) Pedagogy Room 405

Speaker

Dr Jason Moser (Kanto Gakuin University)

Description

In this workshop, I will introduce Task-Based Learning for All, a free website featuring the three-level Collins COBUILD English Course by award-winning EFL authors Jane and Dave Willis. Published in 1988, this course introduced two groundbreaking innovations: a task-based learning methodology and a lexical syllabus. This workshop will examine these innovations using detailed examples from the material, discuss the initial reception by teachers, and explore why the course was never updated or reprinted.

Summary

In this workshop, I will introduce Task-Based Learning for All, a free website featuring the three-level Collins COBUILD English Course by award-winning EFL authors Jane and Dave Willis. Published in 1988, this course introduced two groundbreaking innovations: a task-based learning methodology and a lexical syllabus. This workshop will examine these innovations using detailed examples from the material, discuss the initial reception by teachers, and explore why the course was never updated or reprinted.