Recent perspectives on task-based language learning and teaching / edited by Mohammad Javad Ahmadian, María del Pilar García Mayo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahmadian, Mohammad Javad, editor.

García Mayo, María del Pilar, editor.

Series:

Trends in applied linguistics ; 1868-6362 v. 27.

Trends in applied linguistics, 1868-6362 ; volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition--Methodology.

Second language acquisition.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xxi, 280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]

Summary:

The last three decades have witnessed a growth of interest in research on tasks from various perspectives and numerous books and collections of articles have been published focusing on the notion of task and its utility in different contexts. Nevertheless, what is lacking is a multi-faceted examination of tasks from different important perspectives. This edited volume, with four sections of three chapters each, views tasks and Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) from four distinct (but complementary) vantage points. In the first section, all chapters view tasks from a cognitive-interactionist angle with each addressing one key facet of either cognition or interaction (or both) in different contexts (CALL and EFL/ESL). Section two hinges on the idea that language teaching and learning is perhaps best conceptualized, understood, and investigated within a complexity theory framework which accounts for the dynamicity and interrelatedness of the variables involved. Viewing TBLT from a sociocultural lens is what connects the chapters included in the third section. Finally, the fourth section views TBLT from pedagogical and curricular vantage points.

Contents:

New frontiers in task-based language teaching research / Shehadeh, Ali

Recent trends in task-based language teaching and learning / Ahmadian, Mohammad Javad / Mayo, María del Pilar García

Task repetition effects on CAF in EFL child task-based oral interaction / María del Pilar García Mayo, Ainara Imaz Agirre, Agurtzane Azkarai

Using formulaic sequences to measure task performance : the role of working memory / Zhisheng (Edward) Wen

Examining timing and type of learner-modified output in relation to perception in face-to-face and synchronous task-based chat / Laura Gurzynski-Weiss, Carly Henderson, Daniel Jung

Dynamic strategic interaction scenarios : a Vygotskian approach to focusing on meaning and form / Rémi A. van Compernolle

Effects of L3 learner proficiency and task types on language mediation : a sociocultural perspective / Caroline Payant

Task-based language teaching and concept-based instruction / Lawrence Williams

Dynamic systems theory and the issue of predictability in task-based language : some implications for research and practice in TBLT / Martin Bygate

Using tasks to teach formulaic sequences : interindividual and intraindividual variation / Hoa Nguyen, Diane Larsen-Freeman

From social tasks to language development : coping with historicity and subjectivity / Claire Kramsch, Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes

"If it is all about tasks, will they learn anything?" : teachers' perspectives on grammar instruction in the task-oriented classroom / Martin East

The challenge of thinking task-based teaching from the learners' perspectives : developing teaching competences through an action research approach to teacher education / Andreas Müller-Hartmann, Marita Schocker

Teaching with tasks in primary school EFL Classrooms in Vietnam / Jonathan Newton, Trang Bui.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501511479

1501511475

OCLC:

1017093713

Publisher Number:

9781501511479