Martin East

Formerly known as Helen East

List of John Benjamins publications in which Martin East is involved.

Book series

Task-Based Language Teaching

Issues, Research and Practice

Edited by Martin East, Marta González-Lloret and Andrea Révész

ISSN 1877-346X

Journal

TASK

Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning

Edited by Kris Van den Branden and Koen Van Gorp

ISSN 2666-1748 | E‑ISSN 2666‑1756

Titles

Broadening the Horizon of TBLT: Plenary addresses from the second decade of the International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching

Edited by Martin East

First launched in 2005, the biennial International Conferences on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) have become an established event for a broad range of participants, and a key feature of the conferences has been the invited plenary (keynote) addresses. This edited volume brings together a… read more

[Task-Based Language Teaching, 17] 2025. viii, 283 pp.

Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teachers' Perspective: Insights from New Zealand

Martin East

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is being encouraged as part of a major overhaul of the entire school languages curriculum in New Zealand. However, teachers often struggle with understanding what TBLT is, and how to make TBLT work in classrooms. Using the stories that emerged from a series of… read more

[Task-Based Language Teaching, 3] 2012. xix, 259 pp.

Dictionary Use in Foreign Language Writing Exams: Impact and implications

Martin East

This book provides an in-depth analysis of what happens when intermediate level learners of a foreign language use a bilingual dictionary when writing. Dictionaries are frequently promoted to people learning a foreign language. Nevertheless, teachers often talk about their students’ inability to… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 22] 2008. xiii, 228 pp.

East, Martin 2025 Chapter 13. The teacher variable in TBLT: Broadening the horizon through teacher education and support Broadening the Horizon of TBLT: Plenary addresses from the second decade of the International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, East, Martin (ed.), pp. 255–272 | Chapter

Over the last 40 years, TBLT has received growing attention from a wide range of stakeholders in the language teaching and learning endeavour. Among these stakeholders, teachers have increasingly shown great interest in TBLT, whether motivated by what they hear about TBLT in different contexts… read more

East, Martin 2025 Chapter 1. Broadening the horizon of task-based language teaching: Where has the most recent decade brought us? Broadening the Horizon of TBLT: Plenary addresses from the second decade of the International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, East, Martin (ed.), pp. 2–19 | Chapter

Since 2005 the biennial International Conferences on Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) have provided an important catalyst for theorists, researchers, and practitioners to discuss the latest research findings and developments and to consider the vital interface between research and practice. A… read more

Wang, Qiong, Shaofeng Li and Martin East 2024 Measuring L1 Chinese speakers’ anxiety when completing an English as L2 video narration task: Validation of task anxiety and pedagogical implications Journal of Second Language Studies 7:1, pp. 99–128 | Article

The present study investigated the nature of Chinese as First Language (L1) speakers’ anxiety when completing an oral task in English as Foreign Language (L2). Chinese second-year university students (n = 96) performed a video narration task and completed questionnaires measuring their trait… read more

East, Martin 2018 Chapter 1. How do beginning teachers conceptualise and enact tasks in school foreign language classrooms? TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy, Samuda, Virginia, Kris Van den Branden and Martin Bygate (eds.), pp. 23–50 | Chapter

This chapter focuses on the perspectives of a cohort of pre-service secondary school teachers of foreign languages in New Zealand on the value and use of tasks in their own classrooms. As part of their course requirements, the teachers were asked to design and implement a task in their classrooms,… read more

East, Martin, Nick Shackleford and Gail Spence 2007 Promoting a Multilingual Future for Aotearoa/New Zealand: Initiatives for Change from 1989 to 2003 Culture, Contexts, and Communication in Multicultural Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction, Zhu, Yunxia and Herbert Hildebrandt (eds.), pp. 11–28 | Article

In the fifteen years from 1989 to 2003 considerable development has occurred in the area of international languages teaching in New Zealand’s schools. 1989 marked the beginning of serious moves to encourage the New Zealand government to develop a comprehensive national languages policy that would… read more

East, Martin 2004 Calculating the lexical frequency profile of written German texts Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 27:1, pp. 30–43 | Article

Measures of lexical richness aim at quantifying the degree to which L2 writers are using a varied and large vocabulary. One method for calculating lexical richness is the Lexical Frequency Profile, or LFP (Laufer & Nation, 1995). The LFP, calculated by a computer programme, provides a detailed… read more