Task-Based Language Learning
Peter Robinson
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Description for Task-Based Language Learning
Paperback. This volume contains papers addressing issues in task-based research into second language learning which are essential to informed pedagogic decision-making about how best to achieve this aim. Series: Best of Language Learning Series. Num Pages: 230 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 322.
This volume contains papers addressing issues in task-based research into second language learning which are essential to informed pedagogic decision-making about how best to achieve this aim. These issues include research into the design characteristics of pedagogic tasks that promote the accuracy, fluency and complexity of learner language; the role of individual differences in the motivational and other cognitive variables that demands made by pedagogic tasks draw on; the extent to which tasks, and teacher interventions during task performance, promote the quantity and quality of interaction that facilitate L2 learning; and the generalizability of task-based research in laboratory contexts to ... Read more
This volume contains papers addressing issues in task-based research into second language learning which are essential to informed pedagogic decision-making about how best to achieve this aim. These issues include research into the design characteristics of pedagogic tasks that promote the accuracy, fluency and complexity of learner language; the role of individual differences in the motivational and other cognitive variables that demands made by pedagogic tasks draw on; the extent to which tasks, and teacher interventions during task performance, promote the quantity and quality of interaction that facilitate L2 learning; and the generalizability of task-based research in laboratory contexts to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Series
Best of Language Learning Series
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444350234
SKU
V9781444350234
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About Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson is Professor of Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition in the Department of English, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. His research is into such issues as task-based language learning, the structure of aptitudes for instructed learning, and the role of attention and awareness during implicit and explicit learning. His books include Cognition and Second Language Instruction (2001), Individual Differences and ... Read more
Reviews for Task-Based Language Learning
“Overall, this book is a unique effort that is well prepared and worthy of reading for students, researchers and practitioners in the field of second language acquisition and pedagogy.” (Linguist, 26 June 2012)