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Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning / edited by Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo.

Contributor(s): Garcia Mayo, Maria del Pilar.
Series: Second Language Acquisition. Publisher: Toronto, ON : Multilingual Matters, 2007Edition: 1st ed.Description: xi, 207 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781853599262 (pbk).Subject(s): Language and languages -- Study and teaching | Task analysis in educationOnline resources: Publisher's Website. | Check the UO Library catalog.
Contents:
Introduction / Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo
Chapter 1: Criteria for Classifying and Sequencing Pedagogic Tasks / Peter Robinson
Chapter 2: Information Distribution and Goal Orientation in Second Language Task Design / Craig P. Lambert and Steve Engler
Chapter 3: The Simultaneous Manipulation of Task Complexity Along Planning Time and [+/- Here-and-Now]: Effects on L2 Oral Production / Roger Gilabert
Chapter 4: Tasks, Negotiation, and L2 Learning in a Foreign Language Context / Marisol Fernandez Garcia
Chapter 5: Attention to Form Across Collaborative Tasks by Low-Proficiency Learners in an EFL Setting / Ana Alegria de la Colina and Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo
Chapter 6: Cognitive Task Complexity and Linguistic Performance in French L2 Writing / Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder
Chapter 7: The Effect of Manipulating Task Complexity Along the [+/- Here-and-Now] Dimension on L2 Written Narrative Discourse / Tomohito Ishikawa
Chapter 8: Writing Tasks: The Effects of Collaboration / Neomy Storch and Gillian Wigglesworth
Chapter 9: L2 Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension: The Influence of Task Complexity / Elke Peters
Chapter 10: Task-Effect on the Use of Lexical Innovation Strategies in Interlanguage Communication / Elsa Gonzalez Alvarez
Chapter 11: Fostering EFL Learners' Awareness of Requesting Through Explicit and Implicit Consciousness-Raising Tasks / Eva Alcon Soler
Chapter 12: Interactive Task Design: Metachat and the Whole Learner / Marie-Noëlle Lamy
Bibliography
Summary: "This book contributes to the growth of interest in task-based language learning and teaching that has been seen in recent years. It brings together research that focuses on various aspects and effects of pedagogic task design and presents work that uses tasks to examine oral interaction, written production, vocabulary and reading, lexical innovation and pragmatics in different formal language learning contexts and in different languages. It also provides guidelines for task classification, sequencing and design.Summary: The book is addressed to both professionals and students interested in second language acquisition research. It will also be of use to professionals involved in language pedagogy and curriculum design." (Book Cover)
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Volume 20 in the Second Language Acquisition Series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo

Chapter 1: Criteria for Classifying and Sequencing Pedagogic Tasks / Peter Robinson

Chapter 2: Information Distribution and Goal Orientation in Second Language Task Design / Craig P. Lambert and Steve Engler

Chapter 3: The Simultaneous Manipulation of Task Complexity Along Planning Time and [+/- Here-and-Now]: Effects on L2 Oral Production / Roger Gilabert

Chapter 4: Tasks, Negotiation, and L2 Learning in a Foreign Language Context / Marisol Fernandez Garcia

Chapter 5: Attention to Form Across Collaborative Tasks by Low-Proficiency Learners in an EFL Setting / Ana Alegria de la Colina and Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo

Chapter 6: Cognitive Task Complexity and Linguistic Performance in French L2 Writing / Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder

Chapter 7: The Effect of Manipulating Task Complexity Along the [+/- Here-and-Now] Dimension on L2 Written Narrative Discourse / Tomohito Ishikawa

Chapter 8: Writing Tasks: The Effects of Collaboration / Neomy Storch and Gillian Wigglesworth

Chapter 9: L2 Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension: The Influence of Task Complexity / Elke Peters

Chapter 10: Task-Effect on the Use of Lexical Innovation Strategies in Interlanguage Communication / Elsa Gonzalez Alvarez

Chapter 11: Fostering EFL Learners' Awareness of Requesting Through Explicit and Implicit Consciousness-Raising Tasks / Eva Alcon Soler

Chapter 12: Interactive Task Design: Metachat and the Whole Learner / Marie-Noëlle Lamy

Bibliography

"This book contributes to the growth of interest in task-based language learning and teaching that has been seen in recent years. It brings together research that focuses on various aspects and effects of pedagogic task design and presents work that uses tasks to examine oral interaction, written production, vocabulary and reading, lexical innovation and pragmatics in different formal language learning contexts and in different languages. It also provides guidelines for task classification, sequencing and design.

The book is addressed to both professionals and students interested in second language acquisition research. It will also be of use to professionals involved in language pedagogy and curriculum design." (Book Cover)

Readership Level: Postgraduate, Research / Professional

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