Task-based instruction in foreign language education : practices and programs / Betty Lou Leaver and Jane R. Willis, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leaver, Betty Lou.

Willis, Jane R. (Jane Rosemary), 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching (Higher).

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

vi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2004]

Contents:

Part I An Overview of Task-Based Instruction: From Theories to Practices

1 Perspectives on Task-Based Instruction: Understanding Our Practices, Acknowledging Different Practitioners / Jane R. Willis 3

Part II Tbi in Classroom Instruction

2 Task-Based Instruction in U.S. Government Slavic Language Programs / Betty Lou Leaver, Marsha A. Kaplan 47

3 Using Media-Based Tasks in Teaching Spanish / Alicia Mora van Altena 67

4 Introducing TBI for Teaching English in Brazil: Learning How to Leap the Hurdles / Juarez Lopes 83

5 Learning Arabic: From Language Functions to Tasks in a Diglossic Context / Mahdi Alosh 96

6 Designing an Outcomes-Based TBI Japanese Language Program / Yoshiko Saito-Abbott 122

7 Task-Based Instruction for Teaching Spanish to Professionals / Clemencia Macias 142

8 Bridging the Gap between the Sciences and Humanities: French for Engineers and Other Technical Professions / Wayne Richard Hager, Mary ann Lyman-Hager 161

Part III Internet Tasks and Programs

9 Task-Based Instruction in Online Learning / Natalia Antokhin, Abdelfattah Boussalhi, Kuel-Lan Chen, Pamela Combacau, Steve Koppany 181

10 Webhead Communities: Writing Tasks Interleaved with Synchronous Online Communication and Web Page Development / Vance Stevens 204

11 Using Web Technology to Promote Writing, Analytical Thinking, and Creative Expression in German / Franziska Lys 228

Part IV Assessment and Teacher Development

12 Implementing Task-Based Assessment in a TEFL Environment / Claudio Passos de Oliveira 253

13 It's All in the Team: Approaches to Teacher Development in a Content-Based, Task-Based EFL Program / Kathryn Cozonac 280

Appendix Multiscale Proficiency Descriptors 301.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-322) and index.

ISBN:

1589010280

OCLC:

54686315