English language teaching and learning receive considerable attention in Saudi
Arabian schools as seen in existing efforts of development. A primary purpose of this
study is to participate in these efforts of development through the application of a modern
constructivist instructional practice for English language teaching and learning on the
intermediate school level. This study, in part, strives to determine whether or not the
adoption of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) would be a more effective means of
increasing the students’ reading comprehension achievement scores when compared to
the traditional teaching method of the English language that involves (among other
things) prompting and drilling of students. This study also strives to gain issues and
insights that accompany the application of TBLT through constant comparison and
contrast with those that accompany the traditional teaching method.