Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching

✍ Scribed by Rod Ellis

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Series: Second Language Acquisition, Volume 125
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all learners and in all instructional contexts. This book draws on the author’s experience of working with teachers, together with his knowledge of relevant research and theory, to examine the key issues. It proposes flexible ways in which tasks can be designed and implemented in the language classroom to address the problems that teachers often face with task-based language teaching. It will appeal to researchers and teachers who are interested in task-based language teaching and the practical and theoretical issues involved.  It will also be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of applied linguistics, TESOL and second language acquisition.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part 1. Introduction
1. A Brief History of Task-based Language Teaching
2. Task-based Research and Language Pedagogy
Part 2. Researching Task-based Teaching
3. Non-Reciprocal Tasks, Comprehension and Second Language Acquisition
4. Focus on Form
5. Preparing Learners to Perform Tasks
6. Is There a Role for Explicit Instruction in Task-based Language Teaching?
7. Measuring Second Language Learners’ Oral Performance of Tasks
Part 3. Task-based Language Pedagogy
8. Task-based Language Teaching: Sorting Out the Misunderstandings
9. Moving Task-based Language Teaching Forward
10. Towards a Modular Language Curriculum for Using Tasks
11. An Options-based Approach to Doing Task-based Language Teaching
12. Teachers Evaluating Tasks
Part 4. Conclusion
13. Key Issues in Task-based Research and Pedagogy
References
Index