Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning

✍ Scribed by María del Pilar García Mayo (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings together research that makes use of 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, French, German, Italian and Spanish).

✦ Table of Contents

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