These handbooks provide instructors of Japanese or Thai with instructions and materials for using task-based activities in a communicative classroom. Each handbook also contains nine tasks that require students to exchange information in order to accomplish a goal.
Learners work in pairs to determine how two pictures of a similar scene are different.
The tasks for learners of Japanese are designed to elicit specific grammatical structures, including counters, relational nouns, and tense markers. The tasks for learners of Thai are designed to elicit specific grammatical structures, including classifiers, question forms, and tense markers.