Tasks in second language learning

✍ Scribed by Virginia Samuda, Martin Bygate

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Tasks in Second Language Learning aims to bring more fully into debate the holistic nature of language learning, which tasks are one way of achieving, and to outline the research implications of this perspective. It sets language learning tasks within a broad educational and social science perspective, with a consistent focus on the principles and practices of their use in the language classroom. Using case study data, illustrative materials, transcript data, and close analyses of published research studies, it provides ample and lively 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

Cover......Page 0
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
Part 1 Background......Page 12
1 Language Use, Holistic Activity and Second Language Learning......Page 16
2 Holistic Tasks in an Educational Context: Some Key Issues......Page 27
3 Holistic Tasks in a Research Context: Some Key Issues......Page 46
4 Tasks in Second Language Pedagogy......Page 60
5 Defining Pedagogic Tasks: Issues and Challenges......Page 71
6 Engaging Learning Processes: Implications for the Use of Second Language Tasks......Page 80
7 Researching Second Language Pedagogic Tasks......Page 91
Part 2 Interactions between Research and Practice......Page 138
8 Task Research from a Pedagogical Perspective......Page 142
9 Pedagogic Perspectives on Second Language Tasks......Page 201
Part 3 Exploring Tasks......Page 240
10 Research Directions......Page 242
Part 4 Resources......Page 274
11 Further Resources......Page 276
References......Page 286
Name Index......Page 300
Subject Index......Page 304