About the Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Aims and Explorations into Tasks and Task-based Teaching
1 Task-based Language Learning and Teaching: Theories and Applications
Ali Shehadeh
Part A Implementing Task-based Learning:Contexts and Purposes
2 Developing from PPP to TBL: A Focused Grammar Task
Lamprini Loumpourdi
3 Integrating Task-based Learning into a Business English Programme
Patricia Pullin Stark
4 Language as Topic: Learner-Teacher Investigation of Concordances
Raymond Sheehan
5 Storytelling with Low-level Learners: Developing Narrative Tasks
Patrick Kiernan
6 Adding Tasks to Textbooks for Beginner Learners
Theron Muller
7 Using Language-focused Learning Journals on a Task-based Course
Jason Moser
Part B Exploring Task Interaction: Helping Learners Do Better
8 Exam-oriented Tasks: Transcripts, Turn-taking and Backchannelling
Maria Leedham
9 Training Young Learners in Meaning Negotiation Skills:Does It Help?
Seung-Min Lee
10 Task Repetition with 10-year-old Children
Annamaria Pinter
11 Collaborative Tasks for Cross-cultural Communication
David Coulson
Part C Exploring Task Language: Lexical Phrases and Patterns
12 Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks
James Hobbs
13 Multi-word Chunks in Oral Tasks
Maggie Baigent
14 Can We Predict Language Items for Open Tasks?
David Cox
Part D Investigating Variables: Task Conditions and Task Types
15 Fighting Fossilization: Language at the Task Versus Report Stages
Craig Johnston
16 Storytelling: Effects of Planning, Repetition and Context
William Essig
17 The Effect of Pre-task Planning Time on Task-based Performance
Antigone Djapoura
18 Balancing Fluency, Accuracy and Complexity Through Task Characteristics
Gregory Birch
19 Quality Interaction and Types of Negotiation in Problem-solving and Jigsaw Tasks
Glen Poupore
Epilogue: Teachers Exploring Research
Corony Edwards
References
Index
