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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (March 24, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1403945578
ISBN-13: 978-1403945570

"Classroom teaching and learning ordinarily center on specific language tasks. Instruction becomes more effective when teachers understand the role of language tasks, recognize their students' needs, and apply both types of information in a sound, creative way. With better task-based instruction as a goal, current and future teachers will benefit from the enlightening explorations in this book. In addition, researchers will find that this book can inform and enrich many classroom investigations."--Rebecca Oxford, University of Maryland

"A rich collection of tasks, used successfully by the chapter authors, that EFL teachers anywhere can use to increase their own repertoire--or to implement task-based learning for the first time in their own classrooms. ESL teachers in the United States and other English-speaking countries likewise can make effective use of every chapter in the book."--Betty Lou Leaer, Dean, New York Institute of Technology in Amman, Jordan

Product Description
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. 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.