Task-based Language Learning and TeachingThis book explores the relationship between research, teaching, and tasks, and seeks to clarify the issues raised by recent work in this field. The book shows how research and task-based teaching can mutually inform each other and illuminate the areas of task-based course design, methodology, and assessment. The author brings an accessible style and broad scope to an area of contemporary importance to both SLA and language pedagogy. |
Contents
Tasks in SLA and language pedagogy | 1 |
Tasks listening comprehension and SLA | 37 |
Tasks interaction and SLA | 69 |
Tasks production and language acquisition | 103 |
Focused tasks and SLA | 141 |
Sociocultural SLA and tasks | 175 |
Designing taskbased language courses | 205 |
The methodology of taskbased teaching | 243 |
Taskbased assessment | 279 |
Evaluating taskbased pedagogy | 319 |
Glossary | 339 |
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ability accuracy achieve activity argues assessment attention to form C-R tasks Chapter classroom cognitive communication strategies communicative language teaching complexity comprehension considered declarative knowledge effect elicit Ellis evaluation examine example explicit knowledge factors feedback fluency focus on form focused tasks formative assessment function goals grammatical identify implicit implicit learning input instruction interlanguage investigated kind L2 learners language acquisition language learning language teaching Lantolf lexical linguistic features linguistic forms linguistic knowledge listening tasks meaning negotiation native speakers negotiation of meaning opportunity options oral outcome output Output Hypothesis participants perform the task performing a task Prabhu pre-task premodified private speech problem procedures production proficiency psycholinguistic questions requires learners result role Skehan sociocultural specific linguistic suggests Swain syllabus target structure task performance task-based courses task-based research task-based teaching tasks involving teacher theory topic types variables verb