Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching /
edited by Corony Edwards and Jane Willis.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- 298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-287) and index.
"Task-based learning (TBL) is rapidly gaining popularity, but what actually happens when we use communication tasks in real language classrooms? In this collection, teachers of English as a second or foreign language describe how they implemented TBL with learners of various ages and in a range of contexts. They explore the interaction and language stimulated by tasks, and investigate the effect of variables such as task type, planning time and repetition. This book also offers: a wealth of practical ideas for teachers experimenting with TBL in the classroom. stimulating suggestions for classroom-based projects for teachers studying on Certificate, Masters and Diploma programs. a useful collection of classroom transcripts that can be used for detailed study." (Book Cover) TABLE OF CONTENTS : About the Contributors List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: Aims and Explorations into Tasks and Task-based Teaching / Jane Willis 1. Task-based Language Learning and Teaching: Theories and Applications / Ali Shehadeh PART A IMPLEMENTING TASK-BASED LEARNING: CONTEXTS AND PURPOSES 2. Developing from PPP to TBL: A Focused Grammar Task / Lamprini Loumpourdi 3. Integrating Task-based Learning into a Business English Programme / Patricia Pullin Stark 4. Language as Topic: Learner-Teacher Investigation of Concordances / Raymond Sheehan 5. Storytelling with Low-level Learners: Developing Narrative Tasks / Patrick Kiernan 6. Adding Tasks to Textbooks for Beginner Learners / Theron Muller 7. Using Language-focused Learning Journals on a Task-based Course / Jason Moser PART B EXPLORING TASK INTERACTION: HELPING LEARNERS DO BETTER 8. Exam-oriented Tasks: Transcripts, Turn-taking and Backchannelling / Maria Leedham 9. Training Young Learners in Meaning Negotiation Skills: Does it Help? / Seung-Min Lee 10. Task Repetition with 10-Year-old Children / Annamaria Pinter 11. Collaborative Tasks for Cross-cultural Communication / David Coulson PART C EXPLORING TASK LANGUAGE: LEXICAL PHRASES AND PATTERNS 12. Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks / James Hobbs 13. Multi-word Chunks in Oral Tasks / Maggie Baigent 14. Can We Predict Language Items for Open Tasks? / David Cox PART D INVESTIGATING VARIABLES: TASK CONDITIONS AND TASK TYPES 15. Fighting Fossilization: Language at the Task Versus Report Stages / Craig Johnston 16. Storytelling: Effects of Planning, Repetition and Context / William Essig 17. The Effect of Pre-task Planning Time on Task-based Performance / Antigone Djapoura 18. Balancing Fluency, Accuracy and Complexity Through Task Characteristics / Gregory Birch 19. Quality Interaction and Types of Negotiation in Problem-solving and Jigsaw Tasks / Glen Poupore Epilogue: Teachers Exploring Research / Corony Edwards References Index
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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.