Parvaneh Tavakoli
List of John Benjamins publications in which Parvaneh Tavakoli is involved.
2025 What makes a task difficult? Pre-service teacher analysis of task difficulty TASK 5:1, pp. 88–114 | Article
Two conceptual models of Task Complexity, Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson, 2001, 2007) and Limited Attentional Capacity (Skehan, 1998, 2003, 2018) have been proposed and widely debated in the task-based language teaching (TBLT) literature. However, little empirical evidence exists to suggest… read more
2019 Chapter 2. Automaticity, fluency and second language task performance Researching L2 Task Performance and Pedagogy: In honour of Peter Skehan, Wen, Zhisheng (Edward) and Mohammad Javad Ahmadian (eds.), pp. 39–52 | Chapter
Research in second language (L2) task performance has been interested in examining fluency not only as a key aspect of language performance but also as a construct that can demonstrate L2 processing and development in concrete and measurable ways. Speech fluency has been particularly important in… read more
2014 Storyline complexity and syntactic complexity in writing and speaking tasks Task-Based Language Learning – Insights from and for L2 Writing, Byrnes, Heidi and Rosa M. Manchón (eds.), pp. 217–236 | Article
Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) research has provided ample evidence that cognitive complexity is an important aspect of task design that influences learner performance in terms of fluency, accuracy, and syntactic and lexical complexity. Task features such as the degree of structure and… read more
2005 9. Strategic planning, task structure and performance testing Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language, Ellis, Rod (ed.), pp. 239–273 | Chapter