Task-Based Language Teaching

“This volume provides the reader with a clear sense of the principles and developmental progress of task-based language teaching, and introduces the central themes of TBLT throughout the past 20 years. One of the book’s strengths is the intuitive organization of the four main sections, which provides readers with an easy-to-follow and logical discussion of the emergence and development of the TBLT approach from theoretical foundations to empirical evidence and assessment practices. Professionals familiar with TBLT will find the material included in this reader to be a review of already well known work, nicely organized and presented in one place. Researchers and students beginning their investigations into TBLT will find this volume to be an invaluable resource for key theoretical, foundational, and empirical discussions. Students and educators will appreciate the editors’ accessible writing style and the thought-provoking key questions that conclude each section and provide readers with interesting ideas to keep in mind as they go over each chapter. Overall, this volume is an excellent resource for students, educators, and novice TBLT researchers and would make an ideal textbook for an undergraduate or graduate task-based language teaching course.”