Meaning is primary learners are not given other people's meanings to regurgitate there is a some sort of relationship to comparable real world activities task completion has some sort of priority the assessment of the task is in terms of outcome (skehan, 1998

The statement given above is the definition of task as proposed by Skehan in 1988. Skehan defined task as any activity which:

1. meaning is primary

2. learners are not given other people's meanings to regurgitate

3. there is some sort of relationship to comparable to real world activities

4. task completion has some priority

5. the assessment of the task is in terms of outcome.