Recent Perspectives on Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching / / ed. by Mohammad Ahmadian, María del Pilar García Mayo.

The last three decades have witnessed a growth of interest in research on tasks from various perspectives and numerous books and collections of articles have been published focusing on the notion of task and its utility in different contexts. Nevertheless, what is lacking is a multi-faceted examinat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] , 27
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXI, 278 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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