Many areas of English Language Teaching (ELT) have undergone a lot ofchanges in order to
meet the requirements of English learners. In recent years, ELT has been showing an
inevitable tendency of shifting from General English to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) as
the number of ESP has been rising. This has led to a corresponding increase in the materials
development of ESP in which designing authentic tasks plays an important part in enabling
learners to master the target language.
This research aims at finding out the most effective techniques to create authentic tasks in the
materials development of Secretarial English, which is to be a compulsory subject in the
curriculum to train English majors at Bacninh Teachers Training College.
This research report is composed of three main parts. Itbegins with the introduction, which
states the rationale, aims, scope and methods of the study. Part two includes three chapters, the
first reviews the related literature, the second presents the study in details and the third deals
with major findings from the data analysis and offers recommendations on how to design
authentic tasks in the materials development of secretarial English. Part three is the
conclusion, which summarizes the whole study and gives suggestions for further research.