Task-Based Language Learning - Insights from and for L2 Writing (Task-Based Language Teaching) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9027207305 ISBN 13: 9789027207302

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9027207305
• ISBN 13: 9789027207302
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 323
• Editor: Byrnes Heidi, Manchón Rosa M.