Researching Pedagogic Tasks Second Language Learning, Teaching, and Testing

by Bygate, Martin; Skehan, Peter; Swain, Merrill

• ISBN13: 9780582414822
• ISBN10: 0582414822
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume brings together a series of studies by different researchers on the impact of tasks in second language teaching, testing and development. It reviews a number of issues which include recent research into task-based learning: the effect of tasks on speaking, listening and oral interaction, the role of the teacher in exploiting tasks and the nature of the task based curriculum.

Author Biography

Martin Bygate is a Senior Lecturer in TESOL at the School of Education, University of Leeds. He has written extensively in the past, including the volumes Speaking (1987) and Grammar and the Language Classroom (1994). Peter Skehan is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Education, King's College, London. His previous publications are in the areas of individual differences in second language learning, second language acquisition, and language testing.
Merrill Swain is a Professor in the Second Language Education Program of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. She is a Past President of the American Association for Applied
Linguistics, and is currently a Vice-President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Publisher's Acknowledgements	x
Introduction	1	(20)
Martin Bygate
Peter Skehan
Merrill Swain
PART I: Tasks and Language Processing	21	(74)
Effects of task repetition on the structure and control of oral language	23	(26)
Martin Bygate
Non-reciprocal tasks, comprehension and second language acquisition	49	(26)
Rod Ellis
Rules and routines: A consideration of their role in the task-based language production of native and non-native speakers	75	(20)
Pauline Foster
PART II: Studies of Tasks in Language Classrooms	95	(68)
Focus on form through collaborative dialogue: Exploring task effects	99	(20)
Merrill Swain
Sharon Lapkin
Guiding relationships between form and meaning during task performance: The role of the teacher	119	(22)
Virginia Samuda
`A case of exercising': Effects of immediate task repetition on learners' performance	141	(22)
Tony Lynch
Joan Maclean
PART III: Task-based Approaches to Testing	163	(66)
Tasks and language performance assessment	167	(19)
Peter Skehan
Influences on performance in task-based oral assessments	186	(24)
Gillian Wigglesworth
Task-based assessments: Characteristics and validity evidence	210	(19)
Micheline Chalhoub-Deville
Afterword: Taking the Curriculum to Task	229	(15)
Christopher N. Candlin
Index	244