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Task-Based Instruction
Abstract
In the last twenty years or so, language teaching has changed to incorporate a higher proportion of meaning-based activities, in contrast to the era in which form was primary and a concern for meaning only followed the establishment of control over specific forms. Now, a wide range of classroom options are available for participant organization, content incorporation, and the units by which teaching is organized. In order to locate task-based work within such a range of options, it is necessary to address definitional issues at the outset, since many different contemporary options give task a central role. For the purposes of this chapter, a task is regarded as an activity which satisfies the following criteria:
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“Schmidt (1990) and Van Patten (1990) have argued that limited processing capacities require second language learners to prioritize where they allocate attention, and there is growing interest in applying models of attention from psycholinguistics to the second language case (Robinson 1995).”
BackgroundCORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND LEARNER UPTAKE: Negotiation of Form in Communicative Classrooms
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“(See Lyster and Ranta 1997 for an alternative perspective on the incidence and functioning of recasts.)”
BackgroundThe development of fluency in advanced learners of French
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Planning and Interlanguage Variation
Crookes, G. (1989) · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · doi:10.1017/s0272263100008391 · Cited by 431
Communicating about Grammar: A Task-Based Approach
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“A typical approach is to take a basic unit, such as the T-unit (Crookes 1989) or the c-unit (Brock 1986) and then explore the number of clauses used on average per base unit.”
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Task‐based language teaching: sorting out the misunderstandings
Ellis, R. (2009) · International Journal of Applied Linguistics · doi:10.1111/j.1473-4192.2009.00231.x · Cited by 1,031
Introduction: Investigating Form‐Focused Instruction
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Task-based research and language pedagogy
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The role of individual and social variables in oral task performance
Dörnyei, Z., & Kormos, J. (2000) · Language Teaching Research · doi:10.1177/136216880000400305 · Cited by 562
Online Communication in Language Learning and Teaching
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- Authors
- Skehan, P.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1998-03
- Volume
- 18
- Pages
- 268-286
- ISSN
- 0267-1905 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-6356
- OpenAlex
- W2114427138
- Cited by
- 387
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 28.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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