Teachers exploring tasks in English language teaching /
Teachers exploring tasks in English language teaching /
edited by Corony Edwards and Jane Willis.
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- xii, 298 p. : ill. 23 cm. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-287) and index.
Aims and Explorations into Tasks and Task-based Teaching / J. Willis -- Task-based Language Learning and Teaching: Theories and Applications / A. Shehadeh -- Developing from PPP to TBL: A Focused Grammar Task / L. Loumpourdi -- Integrating Task-based Learning Into a Business English Programme / P. Pullin-Stark -- Language as Topic: Learner-teacher Investigation of Concordances / R. Sheehan -- Storytelling with Low Level Learners: Developing Narrative Tasks / P. Kiernan -- Adding Tasks to Textbooks for Beginner Learners / T. Muller -- Using Language-focused Learning Journals on a Task-based Course / J. Moser -- Exam-oriented Tasks: Transcripts, Turn-Taking and Backchanelling / M. Leedham -- Training Young Learners in Meaning Negotiation Skills: Does it Help? / S-M. Lee -- Task Repetition with 10-year-old Children / A. Pinter -- Collaborative Tasks for Cross-cultural Communication / D. Coulson -- Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks / J. Hobbs -- Multi-word Chunks in Oral Tasks / M. Baigent -- Can We Predict Language Items for Open Tasks? /D. Cox -- Fighting Fossilization: Language at the Task Versus Report Stages / C. Johnston -- Story-telling: Effects of Planning, Repetition and Context / W. Essig -- The Effect of Pre-task Planning Time on Task-based Performance / A. Djapoura -- Balancing Fluency, Accuracy and Complexity Through Task Characteristics / G. Birch -- Quality Interaction and Types of Negotiation in Problem-solving and Jigsaw Tasks / G. Poupore -- Teachers Exploring Research / C. Edwards -- References -- Index.
Task-based learning (TBL) is rapidly gaining popularity, but what actually happens when we use communication tasks in real language classrooms? In this collection, p teachers of English as a second or foreign language describe how they implemented TBL with learners of various ages and in a range of contexts. They explore the interaction and language use stimulated by tasks and investigate the effect of variables such as task type, planning time and repetition. This book offers a wealth of practical ideas for teachers keen to experiment with a task-based approach. In addition, course tutors, teacher trainers and participants on Certificate, Diploma or Masters programs will find stimulating suggestions for classroom-based projects and assignments and a useful collection of classroom transcripts that can be used for detailed study, or simply as a fascinating glimpse into the language produced by learners and fluent speakers when engaged in genuine communication.
9780230522961 0230522963 6610565996 (electronic bk.) 9786610565993 (electronic bk.) 9781403945563 (Cloth) 140394556X (Cloth) 9781403945570 (Paper) 1403945578 (Paper)
10.1057/9780230522961 doi
279219 Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgraveconnect.com
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
Electronic books.
PE1128.A2 / T373 2005eb
428.0711 / T.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-287) and index.
Aims and Explorations into Tasks and Task-based Teaching / J. Willis -- Task-based Language Learning and Teaching: Theories and Applications / A. Shehadeh -- Developing from PPP to TBL: A Focused Grammar Task / L. Loumpourdi -- Integrating Task-based Learning Into a Business English Programme / P. Pullin-Stark -- Language as Topic: Learner-teacher Investigation of Concordances / R. Sheehan -- Storytelling with Low Level Learners: Developing Narrative Tasks / P. Kiernan -- Adding Tasks to Textbooks for Beginner Learners / T. Muller -- Using Language-focused Learning Journals on a Task-based Course / J. Moser -- Exam-oriented Tasks: Transcripts, Turn-Taking and Backchanelling / M. Leedham -- Training Young Learners in Meaning Negotiation Skills: Does it Help? / S-M. Lee -- Task Repetition with 10-year-old Children / A. Pinter -- Collaborative Tasks for Cross-cultural Communication / D. Coulson -- Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks / J. Hobbs -- Multi-word Chunks in Oral Tasks / M. Baigent -- Can We Predict Language Items for Open Tasks? /D. Cox -- Fighting Fossilization: Language at the Task Versus Report Stages / C. Johnston -- Story-telling: Effects of Planning, Repetition and Context / W. Essig -- The Effect of Pre-task Planning Time on Task-based Performance / A. Djapoura -- Balancing Fluency, Accuracy and Complexity Through Task Characteristics / G. Birch -- Quality Interaction and Types of Negotiation in Problem-solving and Jigsaw Tasks / G. Poupore -- Teachers Exploring Research / C. Edwards -- References -- Index.
Task-based learning (TBL) is rapidly gaining popularity, but what actually happens when we use communication tasks in real language classrooms? In this collection, p teachers of English as a second or foreign language describe how they implemented TBL with learners of various ages and in a range of contexts. They explore the interaction and language use stimulated by tasks and investigate the effect of variables such as task type, planning time and repetition. This book offers a wealth of practical ideas for teachers keen to experiment with a task-based approach. In addition, course tutors, teacher trainers and participants on Certificate, Diploma or Masters programs will find stimulating suggestions for classroom-based projects and assignments and a useful collection of classroom transcripts that can be used for detailed study, or simply as a fascinating glimpse into the language produced by learners and fluent speakers when engaged in genuine communication.
9780230522961 0230522963 6610565996 (electronic bk.) 9786610565993 (electronic bk.) 9781403945563 (Cloth) 140394556X (Cloth) 9781403945570 (Paper) 1403945578 (Paper)
10.1057/9780230522961 doi
279219 Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgraveconnect.com
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
Electronic books.
PE1128.A2 / T373 2005eb
428.0711 / T.