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The last three decades have witnessed a growth of interest in research on tasks from various perspectives and numerous books and collections of articles have been published focusing on the notion of task and its utility in different contexts. Nevertheless, what is lacking is a multi-faceted examination of tasks from different important perspectives. This edited volume, with four sections of three chapters each, views tasks and Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) from four distinct (but complementary) vantage points. In the first section, all chapters view tasks from a cognitive-interactionist angle with each addressing one key facet of either cognition or interaction (or both) in different contexts (CALL and EFL/ESL). Section two hinges on the idea that language teaching and learning is perhaps best conceptualized, understood, and investigated within a complexity theory framework which accounts for the dynamicity and interrelatedness of the variables involved. Viewing TBLT from a sociocultural lens is what connects the chapters included in the third section. Finally, the fourth section views TBLT from pedagogical and curricular vantage points.

Language and languages --- Task analysis in education --- Cognitive learning --- Learning --- Analysis, Task (Education) --- Education --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Study and teaching --- E-books --- Task analysis in education. --- Cognitive learning. --- Study and teaching. --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- TBLT. --- Task-Based Learning and Teaching. --- Tasks and Cognition. --- Tasks and Complexity Theory. --- Tasks and Pedagogy. --- Tasks and Sociocultural Theory.

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sociocultural theory --- activity theory --- vygotsky --- Education --- Civilization --- Social change --- Social change. --- Education. --- Research --- History --- Research. --- Children --- Education of children --- Education, Primitive --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997

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In this accessible introduction to Vygotskian sociocultural theory, narratives illuminate key concepts of the theory. These key concepts include mediation; Zone of Proximal Development; collaborative dialogue and private speech; everyday and scientific concepts; the interrelatedness of cognition and emotion; activity theory; and assessment. A final chapter provides readers with an opportunity to consider two additional narratives and apply the SCT concepts that they have become familiar with. We hear from learners, teachers and researchers in a variety of languages, contexts, ages and proficiencies. Intended for graduate and undergraduate audiences, this new edition of the textbook includes controversies in the field, improved questions for collaborative discussion and provides updated references to important work in the literature of second language teaching, learning and research.

English language --- Second language acquisition --- Language and culture. --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Germanic languages --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers --- Social aspects. --- Metodología de la Enseñanza y/o Aprendizaje del Inglés (31104232) --- Bibliografía recomendada --- Language and culture --- Study and teaching&delete& --- Foreign speakers&delete& --- Social aspects --- Vygotsky. --- Zone of Proximal Development. --- activity theory. --- languaging. --- narratives. --- second language learning. --- second language teaching. --- sociocultural theory.

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This edited volume has been compiled in honour of Professor Merrill Swain, one of the most prominent scholars in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) and second language (L2) education. For over four decades, her work has contributed substantially to the knowledge base of the field of applied linguistics, and her ideas have had a significant influence in a range of subfields, including immersion education, mainstream SLA, and sociocultural theory and SLA. The range of topics covered in the book reflects the breadth and depth of Swain’s contributions, expertise and interests. The volume is divided into four parts: immersion education, languaging, sociocultural perspectives on L2 teaching and learning, and developments in language as social action.

Immersion method (Language teaching) --- Immersion method (Language teaching). --- Language and languages --- Second language acquisition. --- Merrill Swain. --- Multilingual learners. --- Translanguaging. --- immersion education. --- language as social action. --- languaging. --- motivation. --- second language acquisition. --- second language education. --- social action. --- sociocultural theory. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics. --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Immersion method --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Foreign speakers --- Study and teaching. --- Language and languages Study and teaching