Tasks in Second Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Virginia Samuda, Martin Bygate (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 298
Series: Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Tasks in Second Language Learning aims to re-centre discussion of the ways in which language learning tasks can help offer a holistic approach to language learning, and to explore the research implications. It relates the broad educational and social science rationale for the use of tasks to the principles and practices of their classroom use. The authors provide a balanced review of research as a basis for exploring a broader research agenda. Throughout, the book offers telling illustration of the contributions of a range of specialists in research, teaching methodology and materials development, and of the authors' own argument.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-1
Front Matter....Pages 3-5
Language Use, Holistic Activity and Second Language Learning....Pages 7-17
Holistic Tasks in an Educational Context: Some Key Issues....Pages 18-36
Holistic Tasks in a Research Context: Some Key Issues....Pages 37-50
Tasks in Second Language Pedagogy....Pages 51-61
Defining Pedagogic Tasks: Issues and Challenges....Pages 62-70
Engaging Learning Processes: Implications for the Use of Second Language Tasks....Pages 71-81
Researching Second Language Pedagogic Tasks....Pages 82-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-131
Task Research from a Pedagogical Perspective....Pages 133-191
Pedagogic Perspectives on Second Language Tasks....Pages 192-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Research Directions....Pages 233-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Further Resources....Pages 267-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-299

✦ Subjects

Language Teaching;Linguistics, general;Language Education;Language and Literature

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