Domains and directions in the development of TBLT : a decade of plenaries from the International Conference / edited by Martin Bygate, University of Lancaster.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bygate, Martin, editor.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, issuing body.

Series:

Task-based language teaching ; v. 8.

Task-Based Language Teaching, 1877-346X ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Methodology.

Language and languages.

Second language acquisition.

Task analysis in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together contemporary position statements and research reviews which were originally presented as Plenary Addresses to the Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, between 2005 and 2013. It thus assembles up-to-date reflections, critiques, and recommendations from influential researchers working within the TBLT paradigm over the last 30 years, thereby also highlighting most of the major theoretical perspectives so far developed. While the plenarists structured their chapters around their original presentations, they have been invited to update their thinking as they feel appropriate and in response to recent developments in the field. The collection thus offers representative and accessible coverage of a range of approaches to the overall philosophy of TBLT, to the relationship between TBLT and the study of second language acquisition, and to the development and implementation of TBLT as a comprehensive approach to language education, curriculum, and pedagogy.

Contents:

Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; The DNA of TBLT; The fundamental challenge to the TBLT project; The organisation of the volume; Acknowledgments; References; TBLT; TBLT: Definition and rationale; TBLT's consistency with research findings on ISLA; TBLT: A brief primer; Task-based needs analysis; Task syllabus design; Production of task-based materials; Methodology and pedagogy; Task-based, criterion-referenced performance testing; Program evaluation; Does TBLT have a future?; Building the road as we travel

Task-based interactions online: What the research base tells teachersCognitive complexity in technology-mediated tasks: An opening agenda; Widening the scope: Beyond online translations of traditional tasks; Technology-mediated tasks at their best: Some examples; Traditional tasks reinvigorated by technological innovation and virtual excitement; New tasks deriving from new mobile and social technologies; When technology and tasks meet: Towards technology-mediated TBLT; The challenge of authenticity in technology-mediated TBLT; Multifaceted motivation in technology-mediated TBLT

Concluding remarksReferences; The Cognition Hypothesis, second language task demands and the SSARC model of pedagogic task sequencing; Introduction; Syllabus design; Mapping pedagogic task design to real-world task demands; Situating and distributing task cognition; The Cognition Hypothesis; Task Sequencing Principle 1; Task Sequencing Principle 2; The SSARC model; The Triadic Componential Framework for task classification and sequencing; Task Complexity; Task Complexity and task sequencing; Task Conditions; Task Difficulty; Mapping Task Complexity/Condition-Task Difficulty interactions

Cognitive abilities and Task ComplexityBroad summary of potentials for Task Complexity-Task Difficulty interactions; Affective factors and Task Conditions; The Cognition Hypothesis and the Trade-Off Hypothesis; Summary and Conclusions; Reference; Limited Attention Capacity and Cognition; Introduction; The Limited Attention Capacity (LAC) Hypothesis: Underlying principles; Evidence and theory; Task research and the Levelt Model: General outline; Conceptualiser Influences; Formulator influences: Lemma retrieval; Formulator influences: Syntactic encoding; The Cognition Hypothesis

Contrasts between the approaches

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027267825

9027267820

OCLC:

920680636