Recent Perspectives on Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2018

Recent Perspectives on Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching

Edited by: Mohammad Javad Ahmadian and María del Pilar García Mayo

Volume 27 in the series Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501503399

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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 examination of tasks from different important perspectives. This edited volume, with four sections of three chapters each, views tasks and Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) from four distinct (but complementary) vantage points. In the first section, all chapters view tasks from a cognitive-interactionist angle with each addressing one key facet of either cognition or interaction (or both) in different contexts (CALL and EFL/ESL). Section two hinges on the idea that language teaching and learning is perhaps best conceptualized, understood, and investigated within a complexity theory framework which accounts for the dynamicity and interrelatedness of the variables involved. Viewing TBLT from a sociocultural lens is what connects the chapters included in the third section. Finally, the fourth section views TBLT from pedagogical and curricular vantage points.

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Mohammad Ahmadian, University of Leeds, UK; María del Pilar García Mayo, University of the Basque Country, Spain.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Foreword: New Frontiers in Task-Based Language Teaching Research Ali Shehadeh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Recent Trends in Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning Mohammad Javad Ahmadian and María del Pilar García Mayo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Cognitive-Interactionist Perspective
1. Task Repetition Effects on CAF in EFL Child Task-Based Oral Interaction María del Pilar García Mayo, Ainara Imaz Agirre and Agurtzane Azkarai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Using Formulaic Sequences to Measure Task Performance: The Role of Working Memory Zhisheng Wen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Examining Timing and Type of Learner- Modified Output in Relation to Perception in Face-to-Face and Synchronous Task-Based Chat Laura Gurzynski-Weiss, Carly Henderson and Daniel Jung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
II. Sociocultural Theory Perspective
4. Dynamic Strategic Interaction Scenarios: A Vygotskian Approach to Focusing on Meaning and Form Rémi A. van Compernolle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
5. Effects of L3 Learner Proficiency and Task Types on Language Mediation: A Sociocultural Perspective Caroline Payant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
6. Task-Based Language Teaching and Concept-Based Instruction Lawrence Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
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 Martin Bygate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
8. Using Tasks to Teach Formulaic Sequences: Interindividual and Intraindividual Variation Hoa Nguyen and Diane Larsen-Freeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
9. From Social Tasks to Language Development: Coping with Historicity and Subjectivity Claire Kramsch and Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
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 Martin East Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
11. The Challenge of Thinking Task-Based Teaching from the Learners’ Perspectives – Developing Teaching Competences Through an Action Research Approach to Teacher Education Andreas Müller-Hartmann and Marita Schocker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
12. Teaching with Tasks in Primary School EFL Classrooms in Vietnam Jonathan Newton and Trang Bui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Students and Researchers of TBLT, Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, SLA, and Language Pedagogy
Pages
- Front matter: 21
- Main content: 278
Keywords: TBLT; Task-Based Learning and Teaching; Tasks and Cognition; Tasks and Complexity Theory; Tasks and Sociocultural Theory; Tasks and Pedagogy

eBook

Published: December 4, 2017
ISBN: 9781501503399

Hardcover

Published: December 18, 2017
ISBN: 9781501511479

Paperback

Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9781501519383