Second Language Task Complexity

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207197

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Second Language Task Complexity by Peter Robinson Pdf

Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that complex tasks should promote greater accuracy and complexity of speech and writing, as well as more interaction, and learning of information provided in the input to task performance, than simpler tasks. Implications are drawn concerning the basic pedagogic claim of the Cognition Hypothesis, that tasks should be sequenced for learners from simple to complex during syllabus design. Containing theoretical discussion of the Cognition Hypothesis, and cutting-edge empirical studies of the effects of task complexity on second language learning and performance, this book will be important reading for language teachers, graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and cognitive and educational psychology.

Author : Melissa Baralt,Roger Gilabert,Peter Robinson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781472570253

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Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning by Melissa Baralt,Roger Gilabert,Peter Robinson Pdf

Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning provides theoretical rationales for, and empirical studies of, the effects of sequencing language learning tasks to maximize second language learning. Examples of task sequences, and both laboratory and classroom-based research into them, are presented. This is the first collection of so far under-researched studies on the effects of task sequencing, framed within the Cognition Hypothesis of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the SSARC model for task sequencing. Perspectives include -- laboratory-based and classroom-based research designs -- implications for teacher training -- laboratory and classroom research methods -- conversational interaction -- task sequencing and Task Based Language Teaching syllabus design

Author : Zhisheng (Edward) Wen,Mohammad Javad Ahmadian
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262387

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Researching L2 Task Performance and Pedagogy by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen,Mohammad Javad Ahmadian Pdf

This volume honours Peter Skehan’s landmark contributions to research in Task-Based Language Teaching. It offers state-of-the-art reviews as well as cutting-edge new research studies, all reflective of key theoretical and methodological issues in current research, such as the role and nature of task complexity and the distinct dimensions of L2 task performance. Collectively, these chapters celebrate Professor Skehan’s seminal influence on TBLT and second language acquisition research, and they bear witness to the sustained academic mentoring and collaboration that have characterised his career. Contributed both by senior academics and more recent participants in SLA and TBLT research, the chapters variously explore conceptual frameworks and methodological insights on central issues in TBLT research, theoretical debates, innovative research paradigms and methodologies, as well as practical pedagogical proposals. The book provides a wide-ranging and balanced account of Skehan’s work and its impact on other researchers, serving as an introduction as well as a critical review for both seasoned and novice researchers and for interested practitioners.

Author : Mike Long
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118882214

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Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching by Mike Long Pdf

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

Author : Virginia Samuda,Martin Bygate
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230596429

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Tasks in Second Language Learning by Virginia Samuda,Martin Bygate Pdf

Tasks in Second Language Learning aims to re-centre discussion of the ways in which language learning tasks can help offer a holistic approach to language learning, and to explore the research implications. It relates the broad educational and social science rationale for the use of tasks to the principles and practices of their classroom use. The authors provide a balanced review of research as a basis for exploring a broader research agenda. Throughout, the book offers telling illustration of the contributions of a range of specialists in research, teaching methodology and materials development, and of the authors' own argument.

Author : Peter Skehan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317245001

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Second Language Task-Based Performance by Peter Skehan Pdf

Second Language Task-Based Performance is the first book to synthesize Peter Skehan’s theoretical and empirical contributions in one place. Exploring three distinct themes in each section (theory, empirical studies, and assessment), this influential body of work is organized in such a way that it provides an updated reflection on the material and makes it relevant to today’s researchers. In each section, an early publication is matched by at least one later publication, followed by a newly written commentary chapter, the combination of which provides the important function of offering a wider-ranging discussion. This book is an invaluable resource for researchers interested in second language task-based research or second language acquisition more generally.

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444350234

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Task-Based Language Learning by Peter Robinson Pdf

This volume contains papers addressing issues in task-based research into second language learning which are essential to informed pedagogic decision-making about how best to achieve this aim. These issues include research into the design characteristics of pedagogic tasks that promote the accuracy, fluency and complexity of learner language; the role of individual differences in the motivational and other cognitive variables that demands made by pedagogic tasks draw on; the extent to which tasks, and teacher interventions during task performance, promote the quantity and quality of interaction that facilitate L2 learning; and the generalizability of task-based research in laboratory contexts to classroom settings.

Author : Rod Ellis,Peter Skehan,Shaofeng Li,Natsuko Shintani,Craig Lambert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108494083

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Task-Based Language Teaching by Rod Ellis,Peter Skehan,Shaofeng Li,Natsuko Shintani,Craig Lambert Pdf

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

Author : Peter Robinson,Peter Jake Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521802888

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Cognition and Second Language Instruction by Peter Robinson,Peter Jake Robinson Pdf

This an excellent introduction to psycholinguistics for applied linguists and language teachers

Author : Mar?a Del Pilar Garc?a Mayo
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853599262

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Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning by Mar?a Del Pilar Garc?a Mayo Pdf

This book brings together research that makes use of tasks to examine oral interaction, written production, vocabulary and reading, lexical innovation and pragmatics in different formal language learning contexts and in different languages (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish). It will be of interest to professionals and students working in SLA research and language pedagogy.

Author : Rod Ellis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294647

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Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language by Rod Ellis Pdf

The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners’ performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these theories in a series of empirical studies. The book examines different types of planning (i.e. task rehearsal, pre-task planning and within-task planning), addressing both what learners do when they plan and the effects of the different types of planning on L2 production. The choice of planning as the variable for investigation in this book is motivated both by its importance for current theorizing about L2 acquisition (in particular with regard to cognitive theories that view acquisition in terms of information processing) and its utility to language teachers and language testers, for unlike many other constructs in SLA ‘planning’ lends itself to external manipulation. The study of planning, then, provides a suitable forum for demonstrating the interconnectedness of theory, research and pedagogy in SLA.

Author : Melissa Baralt,Roger Gilabert,Peter Robinson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781623564087

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Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning by Melissa Baralt,Roger Gilabert,Peter Robinson Pdf

Author : Ágnes Albert
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031202216

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Investigating the Role of Affective Factors in Second Language Learning Tasks by Ágnes Albert Pdf

This book provides an overview of affective individual variables that are considered relevant for second language learning and outlines a novel approach to researching them. In the first part of the book, the most prominent concepts and theories in connection with affective individual variables and tasks are discussed, followed by a literature review of the most significant empirical studies conducted on the reviewed individual variables with the help of tasks. The second part of the monograph reports the findings of a research project which investigated the relationships of motivation, emotions, flow experiences, and self-efficacy beliefs of secondary school students studying English in Hungary. These constructs are examined at two levels: in connection with learners’ English classes in general and in connection with a particular language task, thus linking task performance measures to specific affective states experienced while performing a task and their general trait versions reported in connection with the language classes. Teacher interviews provide further insights into the language tasks used by the teachers of the students taking part in the study and their affective correlates. The book offers multi-level interpretations of the results, puts forward pedagogical implications, and delineates further research directions.

Author : Kim McDonough,Alison Mackey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272348

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Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts by Kim McDonough,Alison Mackey Pdf

This volume brings together empirical research that explores interaction in a wide range of educational settings. It includes work that takes a cognitive, brain-based approach to studying interaction, as well as studies that take a social, contextual perspective. Interaction is defined quite broadly, with many chapters focusing on oral interaction as is typical in the field, while other chapters report work that involves interaction between learners and technology. Several studies describe the linguistic and discourse features of interaction between learners and their interlocutors, but others demonstrate how interaction can serve other purposes, such as to inform placement decisions. The chapters in the book collectively illustrate the diversity of contemporary approaches to interaction research, investigating interactions with different interlocutors ( learner-learner, learner-teacher), in a variety of environments (classrooms, interactive testing environments, conversation groups) and through different modalities (oral and written, face-to-face and technology-mediated).

Author : Heidi Byrnes,Rosa M. Manchón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269713

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Task-Based Language Learning – Insights from and for L2 Writing by Heidi Byrnes,Rosa M. Manchón Pdf

The book seeks to enlarge the theoretical scope, research agenda, and practices associated with TBLT in a two-way dynamic, by exploring how insights from writing might reconfigure our understanding of tasks and, in turn, how work associated with TBLT might benefit the learning and teaching of writing. In order to enrich the domain of task and to advance the educational interests of TBLT, it adopts both a psycholinguistic and a textual meaning-making orientation. Following an issues-oriented introductory chapter, Part I of the volume explores tenets, methods, and findings in task-oriented theory and research in the context of writing; the chapters in Part II present empirical findings on task-based writing by investigating how writing tasks are implemented, how writers differentially respond to tasks, and how tasks can contribute to language development. A coda chapter summarizes the volume’s contribution and suggests directions for advancing TBLT constructs and research agendas.