In:Second Language Cognitive Task Complexity: A research synthesis
Shoko Sasayama, Aleksandra Malicka and John M. Norris
[Task-Based Language Teaching 18] 2025
► pp. 1–30
Chapter 1Introduction to second language cognitive task complexity research
Published online: 26 June 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/tblt.18.c1
https://doi.org/10.1075/tblt.18.c1
Article outline
- 1.1Introduction
- 1.2What is interesting about task complexity?
- 1.3What are the core interests in cognitive task complexity research?
- 1.4How has cognitive task complexity been theorized in educational research and TBLT?
- 1.4.1Cognitive task complexity in educational research
- 1.4.2Cognitive task complexity in instructed SLA and TBLT research
- 1.4.2.1Early conceptualizations of task complexity and task sequencing
- 1.4.2.2Robinson’s Cognition Hypothesis and the Triadic Componential Framework
- 1.4.2.3Skehan’s Limited Attentional Capacity model
- 1.5The status quo of cognitive task complexity research in TBLT
- 1.6Sorting out the L2 task complexity domain
- 1.7A note on the currency of the current synthesis
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