Machteld Moonen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Machteld Moonen is involved.

Article

Moonen, Machteld, Rick de Graaff and Gerard Westhoff 2006 Focused Tasks, Mental Actions and Second Language Learning. Cognitive and Connectionist Accounts of Task Effectiveness Task-Based Language Teaching, Van den Branden, Kris and Machteld Verhelst (eds.), pp. 35–53 | Article

This paper presents a theoretical framework to estimate the effectiveness of second language tasks in which the focus is on the acquisition of new linguistic items, such as vocabulary or grammar, the so-called focused tasks (R. Ellis, 2003). What accounts for the learning impact offocused tasks?… read more