Investigating tasks in formal language learning / edited by María del Pilar García Mayo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García Mayo, María del Pilar.

Series:

Second Language Acquisition S.

Second language acquisition ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Task analysis in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon, [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book contributes to the growth of interest in task-based language learning and teaching that has been seen in recent years. It brings together research that focuses on various aspects and effects of pedagogic task design and presents work that uses tasks to examine oral interaction, written production, vocabulary and reading, lexical innovation and pragmatics in different formal language learning contexts and in different languages (English as a second/foreign language, French/German/Italian/Spanish as foreign languages). It also provides guidelines for task classification, sequencing and design. The book is addressed to both professionals and students interested in second language acquisition research. It will also be of use to professionals involved in language pedagogy and curriculum design.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1. Criteria for Classifying and Sequencing Pedagogic Tasks

Chapter 2. Information Distribution and Goal Orientation in Second Language Task Design

Chapter 3. The Simultaneous Manipulation of Task Complexity Along Planning Time and (+/- Here-and-Now): Effects on L2 Oral Production

Chapter 4. Tasks, Negotiation, and L2 Learning in a Foreign Language Context

Chapter 5. Attention to Form Across Collaborative Tasks by Low-Proficiency Learners in an EFL Setting

Chapter 6. Cognitive Task Complexity and Linguistic Performance in French L2 Writing

Chapter 7. The Effect of Manipulating Task Complexity Along the (± Here-and-Now) Dimension on L2 Written Narrative Discourse

Chapter 8. Writing Tasks: The Effects of Collaboration

Chapter 9. L2 Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension: The Influence of Task Complexity

Chapter 10. Task-Effect on the Use of Lexical Innovation Strategies in Interlanguage Communication

Chapter 11. Fostering EFL Learners’ Awareness of Requesting Through Explicit and Implicit Consciousness-Raising Tasks

Chapter 12. Interactive Task Design: Metachat and the Whole Learner

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610739424

9781788920360

1788920368

9781280739422

1280739428

9781853599286

185359928X

OCLC:

81897756