TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards,Corony
AU  - Willis,Jane R.
TI  - Teachers exploring tasks in English language teaching
SN  - 140394556X
AV  - PE1128.A2 T373 2005
U1  - 428.0711 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - English language
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Foreign speakers
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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