Teachers Exploring Tasks In English Language Teaching Book

About the Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• INTRODUCTION--Aims and Explorations into Tasks and Task-based Teaching--J.Willis
• Task-based Language Learning and Teaching: Theories and Applications--A.Shehadeh
• PART 1: IMPLEMENTING TASK-BASED LEARNING: CONTEXTS AND PURPOSES
• Developing from PPP to TBL: A Focused Grammar Task--L.Loumpourdi
• Integrating Task-based Learning Into a Business English Programme--P.Pullin-Stark
• Language as Topic: Learner-teacher Investigation of Concordances--R.Sheehan
• Storytelling with Low Level Learners: Developing Narrative Tasks--P.Kiernan
• Adding Tasks to Textbooks for Beginner Learners--T.Muller
• Using Language-focused Learning Journals on a Task-based Course--J.Moser
• PART 2: EXPLORING TASK INTERACTION: HELPING LEARNERS DO BETTER
• Exam-oriented Tasks: Transcripts, Turn-Taking and Backchanelling--M.Leedham
• Training Young Learners in Meaning Negotiation Skills: Does it Help?--S-M. Lee
• Task Repetition with 10-year-old Children--A.Pinter
• Collaborative Tasks for Cross-cultural Communication--D.Coulson
• PART 3: EXPLORING TASK LANGUAGE: LEXICAL PHRASES AND PATTERNS
• Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks--J.Hobbs
• Multi-word Chunks in Oral Tasks--M.Baigent
• Can We Predict Language Items for Open Tasks?--D.Cox
• PART 4: INVESTIGATING VARIABLES: TASK CONDITIONS AND TASK TYPES
• Fighting Fossilization: Language at the Task Versus Report Stages--C.Johnston
• Story-telling: Effects of Planning, Repetition and Context--W.Essig
• The Effect of Pre-task Planning Time on Task-based Performance--A.Djapoura
• Balancing Fluency, Accuracy and Complexity Through Task Characteristics--G.Birch
• Quality Interaction and Types of Negotiation in Problem-solving and Jigsaw Tasks--G.Poupore
• EPILOGUE: Teachers Exploring Research--C.Edwards
• References
• Index