Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning (Paperback)

Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo

ISBN 10: 1853599263 / ISBN 13: 9781853599262

Verlag: Channel View Publications Ltd, Bristol, 2006

Paperback. This book contributes to the growth of interest in task-based language learning and teaching that has been seen in recent years. It brings together research that focuses on various aspects and effects of pedagogic task design and presents work that uses 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 as a second/foreign language, French/German/Italian/Spanish as foreign languages). It also provides guidelines for task classification, sequencing and design. The book is addressed to both professionals and students interested in second language acquisition research. It will also be of use to professionals involved in language pedagogy and curriculum design. 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). Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781853599262

Inhaltsangabe:

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).

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Dr. María del Pilar García Mayo is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). She has published widely on the L2/L3 acquisition of English morphosyntax and the study of conversational interaction in EFL. Her most recent edited volume is Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School: Research Insights(Multilingual Matters, 2017). García Mayo is the director of the Language and Speech (www.laslab.org) research group, highlighted by the Basque Government for excellence in research in the field, and the director of the MA program Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings. She is also the editor of Language Teaching Research.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Investigating Tasks in Formal Language ...
Verlag: Channel View Publications Ltd, Bristol
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Einband: Paperback
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