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Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom
Abstract
Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom provides a balanced introduction to both the theoretical and practical aspects of communicative task design, and is aimed at all second and foreign language teachers who want to develop their own tasks, or adopt/adapt those of others. The major purpose is to integrate recent research and practice in language teaching into a framework for analysing learning tasks. This framework should help teachers select, adapt or create their own communicative tasks. The ideas presented are relevant to teachers working in or preparing for a range of teaching situations with a variety of learner types.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Siskin, H. J., & Nunan, D.
- Venue
- The Modern Language Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1990
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 89
- ISSN
- 0026-7902 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2049072322
- Cited by
- 2,301
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 128.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1 (tdm, 9374 d)
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