Second Language Task-Based Performance: Theory, Research, Assessment

✍ Scribed by Peter Skehan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 351
• Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Second Language Task-Based Performance is the first book to synthesize Peter Skehan’s theoretical and empirical contributions all in one place. With three distinct themes explored in each section (theory, empirical studies, and assessment), Skehan’s influential body of work is organized in such a way that it provides an updated reflection on the material and makes it relevant to today’s researchers. Also in each section, an early publication is matched by at least one later publication, followed by a newly written commentary chapter, the combination of which provides the important function of offering a wider-ranging discussion. This book is an invaluable resource for researchers interested in second language task-based research or SLA more generally.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 The Road to This Book
Part I Theory
2 A Framework for the Implementation of Task-Based Instruction
3 Modelling Second Language Performance: Integrating Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency, and Lexis
4 Limited Attention Capacity and Cognition: Two Hypotheses Regarding Second Language Performance on Tasks
5 Reflections on Part I, Theory
Part II Empirical Work
6 The Influence of Planning and Task Type on Second Language Performance
7 Self-Reported Planning Behaviour and Second Language Performance in Narrative Retelling
8 Lexical Performance by Native and Non-Native Speakers on Language-Learning Tasks
9 Reflections on Planning
10 Empirical Work With Tasks
Part III Testing and Assessment
11 Tasks and Language Performance Assessment
12 Models of Speaking and the Assessment of Second Language Proficiency
13 Reflections on Assessment
References
Index