Title: Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language TeachingAuthor(s): Corony Edwards and Jane Willis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date: 2005
Pages: 311
Size: 1.12 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English
This book was written for language teachers by language teachers, with a view to encouraging readers to use more tasks in their lessons, and to explore for themselves various aspects of task-based teaching and learning (TBL). It gives insights into ways in which tasks can be designed, adapted and implemented in a range of teaching contexts and illustrates ways in which tasks and task-based learning can be investigated as a research activity. [+/-]
Practicing language teachers and student professionals in graduate TESOL and Applied Linguistics programs will find this a rich resource of varied experience in the classroom and a stimulus to their own qualitative studies.
This book offers a wealth of practical ideas for teachers keen to experiment with a task-based approach. In addition, course tutors, teacher trainers and participants on Certificate, Diploma or Masters programs will find stimulating suggestions for classroom-based projects and assignments and a useful collection of classroom transcripts that can be used for detailed study, or simply as a fascinating glimpse into the language produced by learners and fluent speakers when engaged in genuine communication.
Contents
Introduction: Aims and Explorations into Tasks and Task-based Teaching
Jane Willis
1 Task-based Language Learning and Teaching: Theories and Applications
Ali Shehadeh
Part A Implementing Task-based Learning: Contexts and Purposes
2 Developing from PPP to TBL: A Focused Grammar Task
Lamprini Loumpourdi
3 Integrating Task-based Learning into a Business English Programme
Patricia Pullin Stark
4 Language as Topic: Learner–Teacher Investigation of Concordances
Raymond Sheehan
5 Storytelling with Low-level Learners: Developing Narrative Tasks
Patrick Kiernan
6 Adding Tasks to Textbooks for Beginner Learners
Theron Muller
7 Using Language-focused Learning Journals on a Task-based Course
Jason Moser
Part B Exploring Task Interaction: Helping Learners do Better
8 Exam-oriented Tasks: Transcripts, Turn-taking and Backchannelling
Maria Leedham
9 Training Young Learners in Meaning Negotiation Skills: Does it Help?
Seung-Min Lee
10 Task Repetition with 10-Year-old Children
Annamaria Pinter
11 Collaborative Tasks for Cross-cultural Communication
David Coulson
Part C Exploring Task Language: Lexical Phrases and Patterns
12 Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks
James Hobbs
13 Multi-word Chunks in Oral Tasks
Maggie Baigent
14 Can We Predict Language Items for Open Tasks?
David Cox
Part D Investigating Variables: Task Conditions and Task Types
15 Fighting Fossilization: Language at the Task Versus Report Stages
Craig Johnston
16 Storytelling: Effects of Planning, Repetition and Context
William Essig
17 The Effect of Pre-task Planning Time on Task-based Performance
Antigone Djapoura
18 Balancing Fluency, Accuracy and Complexity Through Task Characteristics
Gregory Birch
19 Quality Interaction and Types of Negotiation in Problem-solving and Jigsaw Tasks
Glen Poupore
Epilogue: Teachers Exploring Research
Corony Edwards
References
Index
About the author
CORONY EDWARDS is Lecturer in ELT at the Centre for English Language Studies, and Course Tutor for the Open Distance Learning MA in TEFL/TESL, at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has run teacher development workshops in Japan, Korea, UK, Hungary, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Argentina.
JANE WILLIS is well known for her prizewinning books, including A Framework for Task-based Learning and English for Primary Teachers. She has taught English in West Africa, Cyprus and Iran and ran courses for teachers and trainers in South East Asia, South America, Europe and China. She has recently retired from Aston University, where she taught on the MA in TESOL/TESP Distance Learning programmes. She now lives in the Lake District, writing books and travelling widely as an ELT consultant.
Practicing language teachers and student professionals in graduate TESOL and Applied Linguistics programs will find this a rich resource of varied experience in the classroom and a stimulus to their own qualitative studies.
This book offers a wealth of practical ideas for teachers keen to experiment with a task-based approach. In addition, course tutors, teacher trainers and participants on Certificate, Diploma or Masters programs will find stimulating suggestions for classroom-based projects and assignments and a useful collection of classroom transcripts that can be used for detailed study, or simply as a fascinating glimpse into the language produced by learners and fluent speakers when engaged in genuine communication.
Contents
Introduction: Aims and Explorations into Tasks and Task-based Teaching
Jane Willis
1 Task-based Language Learning and Teaching: Theories and Applications
Ali Shehadeh
Part A Implementing Task-based Learning: Contexts and Purposes
2 Developing from PPP to TBL: A Focused Grammar Task
Lamprini Loumpourdi
3 Integrating Task-based Learning into a Business English Programme
Patricia Pullin Stark
4 Language as Topic: Learner–Teacher Investigation of Concordances
Raymond Sheehan
5 Storytelling with Low-level Learners: Developing Narrative Tasks
Patrick Kiernan
6 Adding Tasks to Textbooks for Beginner Learners
Theron Muller
7 Using Language-focused Learning Journals on a Task-based Course
Jason Moser
Part B Exploring Task Interaction: Helping Learners do Better
8 Exam-oriented Tasks: Transcripts, Turn-taking and Backchannelling
Maria Leedham
9 Training Young Learners in Meaning Negotiation Skills: Does it Help?
Seung-Min Lee
10 Task Repetition with 10-Year-old Children
Annamaria Pinter
11 Collaborative Tasks for Cross-cultural Communication
David Coulson
Part C Exploring Task Language: Lexical Phrases and Patterns
12 Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks
James Hobbs
13 Multi-word Chunks in Oral Tasks
Maggie Baigent
14 Can We Predict Language Items for Open Tasks?
David Cox
Part D Investigating Variables: Task Conditions and Task Types
15 Fighting Fossilization: Language at the Task Versus Report Stages
Craig Johnston
16 Storytelling: Effects of Planning, Repetition and Context
William Essig
17 The Effect of Pre-task Planning Time on Task-based Performance
Antigone Djapoura
18 Balancing Fluency, Accuracy and Complexity Through Task Characteristics
Gregory Birch
19 Quality Interaction and Types of Negotiation in Problem-solving and Jigsaw Tasks
Glen Poupore
Epilogue: Teachers Exploring Research
Corony Edwards
References
Index
About the author
CORONY EDWARDS is Lecturer in ELT at the Centre for English Language Studies, and Course Tutor for the Open Distance Learning MA in TEFL/TESL, at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has run teacher development workshops in Japan, Korea, UK, Hungary, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Argentina.
JANE WILLIS is well known for her prizewinning books, including A Framework for Task-based Learning and English for Primary Teachers. She has taught English in West Africa, Cyprus and Iran and ran courses for teachers and trainers in South East Asia, South America, Europe and China. She has recently retired from Aston University, where she taught on the MA in TESOL/TESP Distance Learning programmes. She now lives in the Lake District, writing books and travelling widely as an ELT consultant.
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