{"product_id":"task-based-language-learning-isbn-9781444350234","title":"Task-Based Language Learning","description":"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 classroom settings.  Task Design and Second Language Performance: The Effect of Narrative Type on Learner Output (Parveneh Tavokli \u0026amp; Pauline Foster ) (from 58:2, 439-473, 2008).  \u003cp\u003eCreativity and Narrative Task Performance: An Exploratory Study Agnes (Albert \u0026amp; Judit Kormos) (from 54:2, 277-310, 2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Role of Task-Induced Involvement and Learner Proficiency in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition (YouJin Kim )(from 58:2, 285-325, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTeacher- and Learner-Led Discourse in Task-Based Grammar Instruction: Providing Procedural Assistance for Morphosyntactic Development (Paul Toth) (from 58:2, 237-283, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTask-Based Interactions in Classroom and Laboratory Settings Susan Gass, (Alison Mackey \u0026amp; Lauren Ross-Feldman) (from 55:4, 575-611, 2005).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“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.”  (\u003ci\u003eLinguist\u003c\/i\u003e, 26 June 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCognition and Second Language Instruction\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), Individual \u003ci\u003eDifferences and Instructed Language Learning\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition\u003c\/i\u003e (with Nick Ellis) (2008), and the \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition\u003c\/i\u003e (to appear, 2012). Theoretically motivated, empirical research into task-based language learning has been prompted by proposals for task-based language teaching. These proposals aim to design and deliver task-based units of instruction that optimize the time learners spend in instructional programs, and so speed their exit from them. 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 classroom settings.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990132736229,"sku":"NP9781444350234","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444350234.jpg?v=1761786627","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/task-based-language-learning-isbn-9781444350234","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}