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Teachers exploring tasks in English language teaching / edited by Corony Edwards and Jane Willis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: xii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 140394556X
  • 9781403945563
  • 1403945578
  • 9781403945570
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.0711 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1128.A2 T373 2005
Contents:
Introduction : aims and explorations into tasks and task-based teaching / Jane Willis -- 1. Task-based language learning and teaching : theories and applications / Ali Shehadeh -- 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 Kieman -- 6. Adding tasks to textbooks for beginner learners / Theron Muller -- 7. Using language-focused learning journals on a task-based course / Jason Moser -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-287) and index.

Introduction : aims and explorations into tasks and task-based teaching / Jane Willis -- 1. Task-based language learning and teaching : theories and applications / Ali Shehadeh -- 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 Kieman -- 6. Adding tasks to textbooks for beginner learners / Theron Muller -- 7. Using language-focused learning journals on a task-based course / Jason Moser -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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