Second Language Task Complexity

by Peter Robinson
Second Language Task Complexity
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027207194
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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.

Second Language Task Complexity

by Peter Robinson
Second Language Task Complexity
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902729027X
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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.

Researching L2 Task Performance and Pedagogy

by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen
Researching L2 Task Performance and Pedagogy
Author: Zhisheng (Edward) Wen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2019-08-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027262381
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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.

Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning

by Melissa Baralt
Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning
Author: Melissa Baralt
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-07-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1472570251
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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

Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning

by Mar?a Del Pilar Garc?a Mayo
Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning
Author: Mar?a Del Pilar Garc?a Mayo
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1853599263
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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.

Task-Based Language Teaching

by Rod Ellis
Task-Based Language Teaching
Author: Rod Ellis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1108494080
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A comprehensive account of the research and practice of task-based language teaching.

Task-Based Language Learning – Insights from and for L2 Writing

by Heidi Byrnes
Task-Based Language Learning – Insights from and for L2 Writing
Author: Heidi Byrnes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2014-11-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269718
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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.

Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency

by Alex Housen
Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency
Author: Alex Housen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2012
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9027213054
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Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. However, the larger picture in this field of research is often obscured by the breadth of scope, multiple objectives and lack of clarity as to how complexity, accuracy and fluency should be defined, operationalized and measured. The present volume showcases current research on CAF by bringing together eleven contributions from renowned international researchers in the field. These contributions not only add to the body of empirical knowledge about L2 use and L2 development by bringing new research findings to light but they also address fundamental theoretical and methodological issues by responding to questions about the nature, manifestation, development and assessment of CAF as multifaceted constructs. Collectively, the chapters in this book illustrate the converging and sometimes diverging approaches that different disciplines bring to CAF research.

Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language

by Rod Ellis
Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language
Author: Rod Ellis
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2005-03-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902729464X
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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.