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Exploring the benefits of task repetition and recycling for classroom language learning

Lynch, Tony, Maclean, Joan·2000·Language Teaching Research

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Task-based methodology is particularly suited to teaching languages for specific purposes, because of its affinity to behavioural objectives. Doubts have been expressed as to whether learners actually learn language through doing tasks, and if they do, exactly what they learn. This paper reports the preliminary results of an ongoing study of the benefits of building repetition into a communicative task in an English for Specific Purposes course. We compare the performances of two learners at markedly different levels of English proficiency and find that both benefited from the opportunity to recycle communicative content as they repeated complex tasks. This suggests that task repetition of the type reported here may be a useful pedagogic procedure and that the same task can help different learners develop different areas of their interlanguage.

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“Task interaction improves comprehension of input through the negotiation of meaning (Pica et al., 1987) and task repetition also promotes speech development through input enhancement (Bygate, 2006; Lynch & Maclean, 2000).”
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Manning, S. J. (2014) · Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka (Figshare) · doi:10.26686/wgtn.17007418.v1
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“For example, Lynch and Maclean (2000) found some improvements in both fluency and accuracy through task repetition alone and recommended an approach that included task repetition along with noticing activities and The CATESOL Journal 25.1 • 2013/2014 • 125 guidance from an instructor.”
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“…acquisition (SLA) have consistently shown that repeated practice improves the learner’s speaking performance on a task (Arevart & Nation, 1991; Bygate, 2001; Bygate & Samuda, 2005; Gass, Mackey, Alvarez-Torres, & FernándezGarcía, 1999; Kawauchi, 2005; Lynch & Maclean, 2000; Williams, 1992).”

Authors: Lynch, T., & Maclean, J.
Affiliations: University of Edinburgh (GB)
Corresponding author: Lynch, Tony
Venue: Language Teaching Research
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2000-07
Volume: 4
Issue: 3
Pages: 221-250
ISSN: 1362-1688 (ISSN-L)
1477-0954
DOI: 10.1177/136216880000400303
OpenAlex: W2100519114
Semantic Scholar: 0f6c43b29fdd612672c59fda833d338675428a91
Cited by: 260
References: 26
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 6
FWCI: 12.25
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Language Teaching Research (publishedVersion)
Funders: American Heart Association
Topics: Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Second Language Learning and Teaching
Keywords: task repetition, task-based language teaching, English for specific purposes, interlanguage, learner proficiency level, communicative tasks

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