Introduction: Recent Trends in Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword: New Frontiers in Task-Based Language Teaching Research vii
4. Introduction: Recent Trends in Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning 1
5. I. Cognitive-Interactionist Perspective
6. 1. Task Repetition Effects on CAF in EFL Child Task-Based Oral Interaction 11
7. 2. Using Formulaic Sequences to Measure Task Performance: The Role of Working Memory 29
8. 3. Examining Timing and Type of Learner- Modified Output in Relation to Perception in Face-to-Face and Synchronous Task-Based Chat 53
9. II. Sociocultural Theory Perspective
10. 4. Dynamic Strategic Interaction Scenarios: A Vygotskian Approach to Focusing on Meaning and Form 79
11. 5. Effects of L3 Learner Proficiency and Task Types on Language Mediation: A Sociocultural Perspective 99
12. 6. Task-Based Language Teaching and Concept-Based Instruction 121
13. III. Complexity Theory Perspective
14. 7. Dynamic Systems Theory and the Issue of Predictability in Task-Based Language: Some Implications for Research and Practice in TBLT 145
15. 8. Using Tasks to Teach Formulaic Sequences: Interindividual and Intraindividual Variation 167
16. 9. From Social Tasks to Language Development: Coping with Historicity and Subjectivity 195
17. IV. Pedagogic and Educational Perspective
18. 10. “If It Is All About Tasks, Will They Learn Anything?” Teachers’ Perspectives on Grammar Instruction in the Task-Oriented Classroom 217
19. 11. The Challenge of Thinking Task-Based Teaching from the Learners’ Perspectives – Developing Teaching Competences Through an Action Research Approach to Teacher Education 233
20. 12. Teaching with Tasks in Primary School EFL Classrooms in Vietnam 259
21. Index 279