Task-Based Language Education: From Theory to Practice

by Edited by Kris van den Branden

• ISBN13: 9780521689526
• ISBN10: 052168952X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been attracting the attention of researchers, curriculum developers, teacher trainers and language teachers for many years. However, much of the available literature and research has been from a psycholinguistic perspective, driven by the desire to understand how people acquire a second language. Far less research has been carried out as to whether TBLT works for real teachers and real learners in a classroom environment. This book aims to offer a unique contribution by uniting a discussion of task-based pedagogical principles with descriptions of their application to real life language education problems. It provides an account of the many challenges and obstacles that the implementation of TBLT raises and discusses the different options for overcoming them. The book contains a substantial body of research from Flanders, where the implementation of TBLT has been a nationwide project for fifteen years in primary, secondary and adult education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Series Editors' Preface	ix
Chapter 1 Introduction: Task-based language teaching in a nutshell	1	(16)
Kris Van den Branden
Chapter 2 From needs to tasks: Language learning needs in a task-based approach	17	(30)
Piet Van Avermaet & Sara Gysen
Chapter 3 Tasks for absolute beginners and beyond: Developing and sequencing tasks at basic proficiency levels	47	(29)
Goedele Duran & Griet Ramaut
Chapter 4 Developing language tasks for primary and secondary education	76	(30)
Koen Van Gorp & Nora Bogaert
Chapter 5 Task-based language teaching in science education and vocational training	106	(23)
Nora Bogaert, Koen Van Gorp, Katrien Bultynck, An Lanssens & Veerle Depauw
Chapter 6 Task-based language teaching and ICT: Developing and assessing interactive multimedia for task-based language teaching	129	(22)
Walter Schrooten
Chapter 7 Developing and introducing task-based language tests	151	(24)
Marleen Colpin & Sara Gysen
Chapter 8 The role of the teacher in task-based language teaching	175	(22)
Piet Van Avermaet, Marleen Colpin, Koen Van Gorp, Nora Bogaert & Kris Van den Branden
Chapter 9 A box full of feelings: Promoting infants' second language acquisition all day long	197	(20)
Machteld Verhelst
Chapter 10 Training teachers: Task-based as well?	217	(32)
Kris Van den Branden
References	249	(25)
Subject Index	274	(7)
Name Index	281