In the public domain, it will usually be to transact business, say to buy clothes of good quality at a reasonable price. In the occupational domain, it may be to understand new regulations and their implications for a client. In the educational domain it may be to contribute to a role-play or a seminar, or write a paper on a specialised topic for a conference or for publication, etc. Over the years, needs analyses and language audits have produced an extensive literature on the language-using tasks a learner may be equipped or required to tackle in order to deal with the exigencies of the situations which arise in the various domains. Chapter 7, section 1 gives examples of tasks in the personal domain.
Tasks are, however, indefinitely large in number.
It is not possible for a general framework to specify in extenso all the communicative tasks that may be required in real-life situations. The use of language for playful purposes often plays an important part in language learning and development, but is not confined to the educational domain. Aesthetic uses of language Imaginative and artistic uses of language are important both educationally and in their own right.