Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching

2022-02-09
Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching

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  • Author: Rosemary Erlam
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027258163
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 294

This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched account of how teachers learn about, design and evaluate tasks, after being introduced to TBLT during an in-service programme. The authors then go into classrooms to explore ways in which teachers continue to use tasks, as part of their regular ongoing classroom language programmes, following their in-service education. The book documents how the teachers use tasks to open up opportunities for language learning for students and investigates how teachers understand and position tasks and TBLT as relevant and of value to their teaching contexts. The challenges that teachers face in incorporating TBLT into their practice are also explored. The book suggests how the use of the task as a pedagogic tool may contribute to ongoing understanding about TBLT.

TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy

2018-10-15
TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy

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  • Author: Virginia Samuda
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027263728
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 302

Bringing together experienced classroom researchers and teacher educators from different countries where tasks are playing an influential role in language education, this collected volume critically explores how TBLT research can engage with pedagogy, and how TBLT pedagogy can engage with research. A defining part of the TBLT project has always been a dual concern – both with the nature and use of tasks in language teaching, and with empirical research to guide and support classroom practitioners, the two concerns suggesting a central and reciprocal relationship between research and pedagogy. However, this relationship has at times been unbalanced, and its centrality has sometimes gone by default, problems which this volume aims to address. The introduction proposes criteria to improve the congruence between the research base of TBLT and the concerns and terms of reference of classroom practitioners. Using a range of methodologies, the individual chapters illustrate and explore different aspects of this theme. The book will be of interest to all those wishing to further their understanding of – and/or investigate – the use of TBLT in educational contexts.

Task-Based Language Teaching

2019-10-17
Task-Based Language Teaching

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  • Author: Rod Ellis
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108494080
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 435

A comprehensive account of the research and practice of task-based language teaching.

Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts

2012
Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts

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  • Author: Ali Shehadeh
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027207232
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 385

This volume extends the Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice books series by deliberately exploring the potential of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in a range of EFL contexts. It is specifically devoted to providing empirical accounts about how TBLT practice is being developed and researched in diverse educational contexts, particularly where English is not the dominant language. By including contributions from settings as varied as Japan, China, Korea, Venezuela, Turkey, Spain, and France, this collection of 13 studies provides strong indications that the research and implementation of TBLT in EFL settings is both on the rise and interestingly diverse, not least because it must respond to the distinct contexts, constraints, and possibilities of foreign language learning. The book will be of interest to SLA researchers and students in applied linguistics and TESOL. It will also be of value to course designers and language teachers who come from a broad range of formal and informal educational settings encompassing a wide range of ages and types of language learners.

Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teachers' Perspective

2012-01-11
Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teachers' Perspective

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  • Author: Martin East
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027281823
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 281

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is being encouraged as part of a major overhaul of the entire school languages curriculum in New Zealand. However, teachers often struggle with understanding what TBLT is, and how to make TBLT work in classrooms. Using the stories that emerged from a series of interviews with teachers (the curriculum implementers) and with advisors (the curriculum leaders), this book highlights the possibilities for TBLT innovation in schools. It also identifies the constraints, and proposes how these might be addressed. The result is a book that, whilst rooted in a particular local context, provides a valuable sourcebook of teacher stories that have relevance for a wide range of people working in a diverse range of contexts. This book will be of genuine interest to all those who wish to understand more about TBLT innovation, and the opportunities and challenges it brings.

Encyclopedia of Language and Education

2017-03-15
Encyclopedia of Language and Education

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  • Author: Stephen May
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9783319022451
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely new volume of research and scholarly content, essential to the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization. In the selection of topics and contributors, the Encyclopedia reflects the depth of disciplinary knowledge, breadth of interdisciplinary perspective, and diversity of socio-geographic experience in the language and education field. Throughout, there is an inclusion of contributions from non-English speaking and non-western parts of the world, providing truly global coverage. Furthermore, the authors have sought to integrate these voices fully into the whole, rather than as special cases or international perspectives in separate sections. The Encyclopedia is a necessary reference set for every university and college library in the world that serves a faculty or school of education, as well as being highly relevant to the fields of applied and socio-linguistics. The publication of this work charts the further deepening and broadening of the field of language and education since the publication of the first edition of the Encyclopedia in 1997 and the second edition in 2008.

Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT

2015-11-15
Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT

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  • Author: Martin Bygate
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027267820
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 325

This volume brings together contemporary position statements and research reviews which were originally presented as Plenary Addresses to the Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, between 2005 and 2013. It thus assembles up-to-date reflections, critiques, and recommendations from influential researchers working within the TBLT paradigm over the last 30 years, thereby also highlighting most of the major theoretical perspectives so far developed. While the plenarists structured their chapters around their original presentations, they have been invited to update their thinking as they feel appropriate and in response to recent developments in the field. The collection thus offers representative and accessible coverage of a range of approaches to the overall philosophy of TBLT, to the relationship between TBLT and the study of second language acquisition, and to the development and implementation of TBLT as a comprehensive approach to language education, curriculum, and pedagogy.

Tasks in Action

2009-10-02
Tasks in Action

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  • Author: Kris Van den Branden
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1443815241
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been gaining momentum around the world during the past twenty years. However, particularly lacking in the body of available publications on TBLT is empirical evidence of the actual activity, interaction and learning processes that tasks give rise to in real classrooms. This volume compiles a number of studies that describe what learners and teachers, in various educational contexts, actually do when they are asked to perform tasks as part of their regular classroom activity. As such, the volume provides valuable new insights into the implementation of task-based language teaching and vividly illustrates how classroom practice can inform future theory-building and research on TBLT. All the chapters in this book are based on papers that were presented during the first International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, which was organised in Leuven in September 2005 by the Centre for Language and Education of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Foundational Principles of Task-Based Language Teaching

2021-06-30
Foundational Principles of Task-Based Language Teaching

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  • Author: Martin East
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000398447
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

This book is available Open Access. This book introduces readers to the concept of task-based language teaching (TBLT), a learner-centred and experiential approach to language teaching and learning. Based on the premise that language learners can enhance their second language acquisition (SLA) through engagement in communicative tasks that compel them to use language for themselves, TBLT stands in contrast to more traditional approaches. Accessible and comprehensive, this book provides a foundational overview of the principles and practice of TBLT and demystifies what TBLT looks like in the classroom. Complete with questions for reflection, pedagogical extensions for application in real classrooms and further reading suggestions in every chapter, this valuable and informative text is vital for anyone interested in TBLT, whether as students, researchers or teachers.

Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching

2014-07-31
Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching

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  • Author: Mike Long
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1118882210
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 456

This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully. Combines a survey of theory and research in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) with insights from language teaching and the philosophy of education Details best practice for TBLT programs, including discussion of learner needs and means analysis; syllabus design; materials writing; choice of methodological principles and pedagogic procedures; criterion-referenced, task-based performance assessment; and program evaluation Written by an esteemed scholar of second language acquisition with over 30 years of research and classroom experience Considers diffusion of innovation in education and the potential impact of TBLT on foreign and second language learning