Author : Martin Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 1993-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521426664
This book contains 40 tasks of two types: discussion tasks and classroom-based tasks.
Author : Jane Willis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0230522963
Winner - British Council Innovation in English Language Teaching Award 2006 This book was written for language teachers by language teachers, with a view to encouraging readers to use more tasks in their lessons, and to explore for themselves various aspects of task-based teaching and learning. It gives insights into ways in which tasks can be designed, adapted and implemented in a range of teaching contexts and illustrates ways in which tasks and task-based learning can be investigated as a research activity. Practising language teachers and student professionals on MA TESOL/Applied Linguistics courses will find this a rich resource of varied experience in the classroom and a stimulus to their own qualitative studies.
Author : Scott Thornbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 1997-03-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521427207
This book raises the issue of what a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively. It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system.
Author : Daniel O. Jackson
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1800411251
This book provides an accessible, evidence-based account of how teacher noticing, the process of attending to, interpreting and acting on events which occur during engagement with learners, can be examined in contexts of language teacher education and highlights the importance of reflective practice for professional development. Central to the work is an innovative mixed-methods study of task-based interaction which was undertaken with pre-service English language teachers in Japan. Through close analyses of task interaction coupled with recall data, it illustrates the ways in which pre-service teachers noticed their student partners’ use of embodied and linguistic resources. This focus on what teachers attend to, how they interpret it, and their subsequent decisions has multiple implications for language learning and teacher development. It demonstrates the value of teacher noticing for developing rapport, supporting pupils’ language acquisition, enhancing participation, fostering reflection and guiding observation, a central feature of language teachers’ career advancement.
Author : Ruth Wajnryb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521407222
Classroom Observation Tasks shows how to use observation to learn about language teaching. It does this by providing a range of tasks which guide the user through the process of observing, analysing and reflecting, and which develop the skills of observation. The book contains a bank of 35 structured tasks which are grouped into seven areas of focus: the learner, the language, the learning process, the lesson, teaching skills and strategies, classroom management, and materials and resources. Each task looks at one aspect of a particular area; for example, the language a teacher uses to ask questions, or how the teacher monitors learning, or how people interact in a lesson. Each task provides guidance in how to record observations, and questions to help users interpret the data and relate the experience to their own teaching circumstances and practice. [This book]: a- is addressed mainly to teachers, but also caters for trainee teachers, teacher trainers and others involved in school-based teacher support, teacher development and trainer training; b- has a comprehensive introduction to the tasks and a rationale covering the theoretical issues involved; and c- places the responsibility for professional growth in the hands of the teacher. -- Back cover.
Author : Kris Van den Branden
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1443815241
Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been gaining momentum around the world during the past twenty years. However, particularly lacking in the body of available publications on TBLT is empirical evidence of the actual activity, interaction and learning processes that tasks give rise to in real classrooms. This volume compiles a number of studies that describe what learners and teachers, in various educational contexts, actually do when they are asked to perform tasks as part of their regular classroom activity. As such, the volume provides valuable new insights into the implementation of task-based language teaching and vividly illustrates how classroom practice can inform future theory-building and research on TBLT. All the chapters in this book are based on papers that were presented during the first International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, which was organised in Leuven in September 2005 by the Centre for Language and Education of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Author : Jack C. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521803659
In addition to the approaches and methods covered in the first edition, this edition includes new chapters, such as whole language, multiple intelligences, neurolinguistic programming, competency-based language teaching, co-operative language learning, content-based instruction, task-based language teaching, and The Post-Methods Era.
Author : Mohammad Javad Ahmadian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110886502X
Written by leading international experts, this handbook provides an accessible resource to task-based language teaching for teachers, as well as academic researchers. Chapters in the volume are presented in a reader-friendly style, with ideas made accessible through case studies, questions for discussion, and suggested further readings.
Author : Craig Lambert
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1788929454
This book examines the use of tasks in second language instruction in a variety of international contexts, and addresses the need for a better understanding of how tasks are used in teaching and program-level decision-making. The chapters consider the key issues, examples, benefits and challenges that teachers, program designers and researchers face in using tasks in a diverse range of contexts around the world, and aim to understand practitioners’ concerns with the relationship between tasks and performance. They provide examples of how tasks are used with learners of different ages and different proficiency levels, in both face-to-face and online contexts. In documenting these uses of tasks, the authors of the various chapters illuminate cultural, educational and institutional factors that can make the effective use of tasks more or less difficult in their particular context.
Author : Rod Ellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Education
ISBN : 1108494080
A comprehensive account of the research and practice of task-based language teaching.
