The major purpose of this paper is to give second/foreign language teachers a vivid picture of task-based language teaching methodology. There is much evidence to show that task-based approach plays a very important role in foreign language teaching and learning. Task-based approach is a foreign language teaching method which has been used since 1980. In second language teaching, it was first carried out in India by N.S. Prabhu, who published the Bangalore research report in 1982 and developed the concept of task-based approach (Wei, 2004). District Collector V.N.Vishnu, addressing a meeting, urged engineering students to acquire communication skills and life skills to find a foothold in the job market (The Hindu,March 28th 2012). Keeping this in mind, a case study to measure the effect of Task-based Language Teaching Methodology on oral Skills among the students of Swarnandhra Engineering College at a rural place in Andhra Pradesh was conducted. III B.Tech. (25) students at the College, were taken as samples. Study was conducted, results were found out, and recommendations were made to the teachers of English.
Keywords: Task-based language teaching methodology, oral skills, case study