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Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT
A decade of plenaries from the international conference
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This volume brings together contemporary position statements and research reviews which were originally presented as Plenary Addresses to the Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, between 2005 and 2013. It thus assembles up-to-date reflections, critiques, and recommendations from influential researchers working within the TBLT paradigm over the last 30 years, thereby also highlighting most of the major theoretical perspectives so far developed. While the plenarists structured their chapters around their original presentations, they have been invited to update their thinking as they feel appropriate and in response to recent developments in the field. The collection thus offers representative and accessible coverage of a range of approaches to the overall philosophy of TBLT, to the relationship between TBLT and the study of second language acquisition, and to the development and implementation of TBLT as a comprehensive approach to language education, curriculum, and pedagogy.
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 8] 2015. xxiv, 325 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 October 2015
Published online on 26 October 2015
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgement | pp. vii–viii
- Series Editors’ Preface | pp. ix–x
- Authors’ biodata | pp. xi–xiv
- IntroductionMartin Bygate | pp. xv–xxiv
- TBLT: Building the road as we travelMike Long | pp. 1–26
- Thinking and acting programmatically in taskbased language teaching: Essential roles for program evaluationJohn M. Norris | pp. 27–58
- Staking out the territory of technology-mediated TBLTLourdes Ortega and Marta González-Lloret | pp. 59–86
- The Cognition Hypothesis, second language task demands, and the SSARC model of pedagogic task sequencingPeter Robinson | pp. 87–122
- Limited Attention Capacity and Cognition: Two hypotheses regarding second language performance on tasksPeter Skehan | pp. 123–156
- Tasks, experiential learning, and meaning making activities: A functional approachBernard A. Mohan, Tammy Slater, Gulbahar H. Beckett and Esther Tong | pp. 157–192
- Linking ‘task’ and curricular thinking: An affirmation of the TBLT educational agendaHeidi Byrnes | pp. 193–224
- Perceived benefits and challenges with the use of collaborative tasks in EFL contextsKim McDonough | pp. 225–246
- Teachers evaluating tasksRod Ellis | pp. 247–270
- Tasks, design, and the architecture of pedagogical spacesVirginia Samuda | pp. 271–302
- Task-based language education: From theory to practice … and back againKris Van den Branden | pp. 303–320
- Index | pp. 321–325
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