ABSTRACT
Researching Pedagogic Tasks brings together a series of empirical studies into the use of pedagogical tasks for second language learning, with a view to better understanding the structure of tasks, their impact on students, and their use by teachers. The volume starts with an introduction to the background and key issues in the topic area and is then organised into three sections:
- the first section focuses on the language and learning of students on tasks
- the second on the use of tasks in the language classroom
- the third on the use of tasks for language testing
Each section begins with a succinct section introduction, and the volume concludes with an afterword relating the theme of the volume to issues in curriculum development. The chapters include both experimental and qualitative approaches to the topic, some providing original accounts of specific studies, others offering overviews of linked series of studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|73 pages
Tasks and Language Processing
chapter Chapter 4|19 pages
Rules and routines
part II|68 pages
Studies of Tasks in Language Classrooms
chapter Chapter 6|22 pages
Guiding relationships between form and meaning during task performance
chapter Chapter 7|22 pages
‘A case of exercising’
part III|81 pages
Task-Based Approaches to Testing