TY - BOOK ID - 8824004 TI - Investigating tasks in formal language learning PY - 2007 SN - 1853599263 1853599271 9781853599279 9781853599262 185359928X 9781853599286 1280739428 9786610739424 1788920368 9781280739422 6610739420 9781788920360 PB - Clevedon Multilingual Matters DB - UniCat KW - Language and languages KW - Task analysis in education. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Analysis, Task (Education) KW - Foreign language study KW - Education KW - Language and education KW - Language schools KW - Language and languages Study and teaching KW - Study and teaching KW - SLA. KW - Second Language Acquisition. KW - classroom. KW - curriculum design. KW - formal language learning contexts. KW - language pedagogy. KW - task-based language learning. KW - task-based language teaching. KW - vocabulary. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8824004 AB - 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. ER -