Recent perspectives on task-based language learning and teaching.

✍ Scribed by Mohammad Javad Ahmadian; María del Pilar García Mayo

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter & Co.
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Table of contents
Foreword: New Frontiers in Task-Based Language Teaching Research
Introduction: Recent Trends in Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning
I. Cognitive-Interactionist Perspective
1. Task Repetition Effects on CAF in EFL Child Task-Based Oral Interaction
2. Using Formulaic Sequences to Measure Task Performance: The Role of Working Memory
3. Examining Timing and Type of Learner- Modified Output in Relation to Perception in Face-to-Face and Synchronous Task-Based Chat
II. Sociocultural Theory Perspective
4. Dynamic Strategic Interaction Scenarios: A Vygotskian Approach to Focusing on Meaning and Form
5. Effects of L3 Learner Proficiency and Task Types on Language Mediation: A Sociocultural Perspective
6. Task-Based Language Teaching and Concept-Based Instruction
III. Complexity Theory Perspective
7. Dynamic Systems Theory and the Issue of Predictability in Task-Based Language: Some Implications for Research and Practice in TBLT
8. Using Tasks to Teach Formulaic Sequences: Interindividual and Intraindividual Variation
9. From Social Tasks to Language Development: Coping with Historicity and Subjectivity
IV. Pedagogic and Educational Perspective
10. “If It Is All About Tasks, Will They Learn Anything?” Teachers’ Perspectives on Grammar Instruction in the Task-Oriented Classroom
11. The Challenge of Thinking Task-Based Teaching from the Learners’ Perspectives – Developing Teaching Competences Through an Action Research Approach to Teacher Education
12. Teaching with Tasks in Primary School EFL Classrooms in Vietnam
Index