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Chapter 1. How do beginning teachers conceptualise and enact tasks in school foreign language classrooms?

  • Martin East
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TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy
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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the perspectives of a cohort of pre-service secondary school teachers of foreign languages in New Zealand on the value and use of tasks in their own classrooms. As part of their course requirements, the teachers were asked to design and implement a task in their classrooms, and subsequently reflect on its effectiveness. The chapter draws on aspects of those reflections, along with examples of tasks developed, to explore how those novice teachers interpreted the concept of task in action, how they worked with tasks in their classrooms, and the kinds of insights that they gained from the overall process of design, implementation, reflection and evaluation.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the perspectives of a cohort of pre-service secondary school teachers of foreign languages in New Zealand on the value and use of tasks in their own classrooms. As part of their course requirements, the teachers were asked to design and implement a task in their classrooms, and subsequently reflect on its effectiveness. The chapter draws on aspects of those reflections, along with examples of tasks developed, to explore how those novice teachers interpreted the concept of task in action, how they worked with tasks in their classrooms, and the kinds of insights that they gained from the overall process of design, implementation, reflection and evaluation.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Series editors’ preface vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 1. How do beginning teachers conceptualise and enact tasks in school foreign language classrooms? 23
  6. Chapter 2. Teacher transformation of textbook tasks in Vietnamese EFL high school classrooms 51
  7. Chapter 3. Teacher perceptions and use of tasks in school ESL classrooms 71
  8. Chapter 4. The challenges of integrating focus on form within tasks 97
  9. Chapter 5. Optimal conditions for TBLT? 131
  10. Chapter 6. Task-based language teaching 165
  11. Chapter 7. Researching TBLT for young, beginner learners in Japan 199
  12. Chapter 8. Promoting learning from second language speaking tasks 213
  13. Chapter 9. Tasks in the pedagogic space 235
  14. Chapter 10. Becoming a task-based teacher educator 265
  15. About the authors 287
  16. Index 291
https://doi.org/10.1075/tblt.12.02eas

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Series editors’ preface vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 1. How do beginning teachers conceptualise and enact tasks in school foreign language classrooms? 23
  6. Chapter 2. Teacher transformation of textbook tasks in Vietnamese EFL high school classrooms 51
  7. Chapter 3. Teacher perceptions and use of tasks in school ESL classrooms 71
  8. Chapter 4. The challenges of integrating focus on form within tasks 97
  9. Chapter 5. Optimal conditions for TBLT? 131
  10. Chapter 6. Task-based language teaching 165
  11. Chapter 7. Researching TBLT for young, beginner learners in Japan 199
  12. Chapter 8. Promoting learning from second language speaking tasks 213
  13. Chapter 9. Tasks in the pedagogic space 235
  14. Chapter 10. Becoming a task-based teacher educator 265
  15. About the authors 287
  16. Index 291
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