Teachers Exploring Tasks In English Language Teaching

Author : Jane Willis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230522961

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Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching by Jane Willis Pdf

Winner - British Council Innovation in English Language Teaching Award 2006 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. Practising language teachers and student professionals on MA TESOL/Applied Linguistics courses will find this a rich resource of varied experience in the classroom and a stimulus to their own qualitative studies.

Author : Ali Shehadeh,Christine A. Coombe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789027207234

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Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts by Ali Shehadeh,Christine A. Coombe Pdf

This volume extends the Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice books series by deliberately exploring the potential of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in a range of EFL contexts. It is specifically devoted to providing empirical accounts about how TBLT practice is being developed and researched in diverse educational contexts, particularly where English is not the dominant language. By including contributions from settings as varied as Japan, China, Korea, Venezuela, Turkey, Spain, and France, this collection of 13 studies provides strong indications that the research and implementation of TBLT in EFL settings is both on the rise and interestingly diverse, not least because it must respond to the distinct contexts, constraints, and possibilities of foreign language learning. The book will be of interest to SLA researchers and students in applied linguistics and TESOL. It will also be of value to course designers and language teachers who come from a broad range of formal and informal educational settings encompassing a wide range of ages and types of language learners.

Author : Rosemary Erlam,Constanza Tolosa
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789027258168

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Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching by Rosemary Erlam,Constanza Tolosa Pdf

This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched account of how teachers learn about, design and evaluate tasks, after being introduced to TBLT during an in-service programme. The authors then go into classrooms to explore ways in which teachers continue to use tasks, as part of their regular ongoing classroom language programmes, following their in-service education. The book documents how the teachers use tasks to open up opportunities for language learning for students and investigates how teachers understand and position tasks and TBLT as relevant and of value to their teaching contexts. The challenges that teachers face in incorporating TBLT into their practice are also explored. The book suggests how the use of the task as a pedagogic tool may contribute to ongoing understanding about TBLT.

Author : Kris Van den Branden,Koen Van Gorp,Machteld Verhelst
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781443815246

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Tasks in Action by Kris Van den Branden,Koen Van Gorp,Machteld Verhelst Pdf

Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been gaining momentum around the world during the past twenty years. However, particularly lacking in the body of available publications on TBLT is empirical evidence of the actual activity, interaction and learning processes that tasks give rise to in real classrooms. This volume compiles a number of studies that describe what learners and teachers, in various educational contexts, actually do when they are asked to perform tasks as part of their regular classroom activity. As such, the volume provides valuable new insights into the implementation of task-based language teaching and vividly illustrates how classroom practice can inform future theory-building and research on TBLT. All the chapters in this book are based on papers that were presented during the first International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, which was organised in Leuven in September 2005 by the Centre for Language and Education of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Author : Donald Freeman,Jack C. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521559072

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Teacher Learning in Language Teaching by Donald Freeman,Jack C. Richards Pdf

This book introduces a new field of educational research called teacher learning, as it applies to the teaching of languages. Up until recently, the study of second language teacher education has focused mainly on the knowledge base and specific skills needed for effective teaching. This book invites us to look at teacher education from a fresh point of view, through an exploration of the thinking and learning processes of individuals as they learn to teach. Seventeen original articles, based on studies done in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, provide examples of pioneering research into the ways that individuals learn to teach languages, and the roles that previous experience, social context, and professional training play in the process. The collection thus helps establish a research base for this newly developing field.

Author : Virginia Samuda,Kris Van den Branden,Martin Bygate
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263728

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TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy by Virginia Samuda,Kris Van den Branden,Martin Bygate Pdf

Bringing together experienced classroom researchers and teacher educators from different countries where tasks are playing an influential role in language education, this collected volume critically explores how TBLT research can engage with pedagogy, and how TBLT pedagogy can engage with research. A defining part of the TBLT project has always been a dual concern – both with the nature and use of tasks in language teaching, and with empirical research to guide and support classroom practitioners, the two concerns suggesting a central and reciprocal relationship between research and pedagogy. However, this relationship has at times been unbalanced, and its centrality has sometimes gone by default, problems which this volume aims to address. The introduction proposes criteria to improve the congruence between the research base of TBLT and the concerns and terms of reference of classroom practitioners. Using a range of methodologies, the individual chapters illustrate and explore different aspects of this theme. The book will be of interest to all those wishing to further their understanding of – and/or investigate – the use of TBLT in educational contexts.

Author : Virginia Samuda,Martin Bygate
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Graham Hall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136804243

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Exploring English Language Teaching by Graham Hall Pdf

This title will provide a single volume introduction to the field of ELT from an applied linguistics perspective.

Author : Nigel Harwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521198561

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English Language Teaching Materials by Nigel Harwood Pdf

"Provides an overview of the current state of materials design in language teaching. The materials discussed include the complete range of language-learning resources from teacher-created materials to commercially-developed tasks, texts, and activities. Seventeen original chapters explore the issues involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of materials in a wide variety of contexts. The contributors, an international group of established experts, explain the theories and principles underlying their approaches to materials design. They examine the issues that materials writers encounter when developing language-teaching materials, both in print and digital formats, and present a variety of solutions that help resolve those issues. Discussion questions and tasks follow each chapter to make this volume useful to prospective and practicing teachers alike"--Page 4 of cover

Author : Rod Ellis,Peter Skehan,Shaofeng Li,Natsuko Shintani,Craig Lambert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Ju Seong Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031515408

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Technology and English Language Teaching in a Changing World by Ju Seong Lee Pdf

Author : Denise E. Murray,MaryAnn Christison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351139830

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What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volume I by Denise E. Murray,MaryAnn Christison Pdf

Designed for pre-service teachers and teachers new to the field of ELT, What English Teachers Need to Know Volumes I, II, and III are companion textbooks organized around the key question: What do teachers need to know and be able to do in order for their students to learn English? In the Second Edition of Volume I, Murray and Christison return to this essential question and call attention to emerging trends and challenges affecting the contemporary classroom. Addressing new skills and strategies that EFL teachers require to meet the needs of their shifting student populations who are impacted by changing demographics, digital environments, and globalization, this book, which is grounded in current research, offers a strong emphasis on practical applications for classroom teaching. This updated and expanded Second Edition features: a new chapter on technology in TESOL new and updated classroom examples throughout discussions of how teachers can prepare for contemporary challenges, such as population mobility and globalization The comprehensive texts work for teachers across different contexts—where English is the dominant language, an official language, or a foreign language; for different levels—elementary/primary, secondary, university, or adult education; and for different learning purposes—general English, workplace English, English for academic purposes, or English for specific purposes.

Author : Christiane Lütge,Thorsten Merse
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823392446

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Digital Teaching and Learning: Perspectives for English Language Education by Christiane Lütge,Thorsten Merse Pdf

The ongoing digitalization of social environments and personal lifeworlds has made it crucial to pinpoint the possibilities of digital teaching and learning also in the context of English language education. This book offers university students, trainee teachers, in-service teachers and teacher educators an in-depth exploration of the intricate relationship between English language education and digital teaching and learning. Located at the intersection of research, theory and teaching practice, it thoroughly legitimizes the use of digital media in English language education and provides concrete scenarios for their competence-oriented and task-based classroom use.

Author : Xiangyun Du,Mads Jakob Kirkebæk
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443843508

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Exploring Task-Based PBL in Chinese Teaching and Learning by Xiangyun Du,Mads Jakob Kirkebæk Pdf

This book is based on educational research conducted by the Confucius Institute for Innovation and Learning at Aalborg University. It aims to bridge the gap between the traditional methods of teaching Chinese and the student-centred learning method in a non-native context such as Denmark. The establishment of a conceptual framework for Task-Based PBL offers an alternative approach that encourages innovative teaching practices and promotes research-based teaching in language education. Empirically, this book reports how teachers designed and conducted tasks, how the classroom setting was affected, and how students evaluated the course. Teachers’ reflections and recommendations are included, along with 20 ready-to-use tasks developed by our teachers to disseminate our experiences and methods with a broad range of teachers, students and educational contexts. This book suggests that the effectiveness of new teaching methods and the initiation of new subjects are contextual. Learning a foreign language (e.g. Chinese) is more than language acquisition; it is also understanding other cultures and participating in intercultural interaction and communication. Thus, education and learning (particularly a foreign language) is related to a broader social transformation in the process of globalisation and in the development towards a knowledge society.

Author : Jerry G. Gebhard,Robert Oprandy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521630399

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Language Teaching Awareness by Jerry G. Gebhard,Robert Oprandy Pdf

This book helps language teachers become more aware of their teaching beliefs, attitudes, and practices. The hardback edition helps teachers explore their teaching beliefs, attitudes, and practices. It provides teachers with the kind of knowledge and guidelines that can empower them to make more informed teaching decisions. As such, teacher educators will find this a practical book to use in training courses.