Designing Language Teaching Tasks

Zusatztext 'A very comprehensive book including processes! procedures and useful frameworks and examples. A very through and useful companion for all classroom teachers.' - Dr Christine Pegg! Department of Communication! Cardiff University Informationen zum Autor KEITH JOHNSON is Professor of Linguistics and Language Education at Lancaster University. His recent publications include An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (2001), Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics (1998), and Language Teaching and Skill Learning (1996). He is the founding editor of the journal Language Teaching Research. Klappentext Short-listed for the British Council Innovation Awards 2004 that promote and reward excellence in English Language Teaching Designing Language Teaching Tasks provides a research-based account of how experienced teachers and task designers prepare activities for use in the language classroom. It gives detailed information on the procedures which designers follow. The book is a description of research and will therefore interest applied linguists and students in the field. It is written in a clear and comprehensible way, and should appeal to all those who want to learn to write good language teaching materials. Zusammenfassung Short-listed for the British Council Innovation Awards 2004 that promote and reward excellence in English Language Teaching Designing Language Teaching Tasks provides a research-based account of how experienced teachers and task designers prepare activities for use in the language classroom. It gives detailed information on the procedures which designers follow. The book is a description of research and will therefore interest applied linguists and students in the field. It is written in a clear and comprehensible way, and should appeal to all those who want to learn to write good language teaching materials. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Why Study Task Design Some Studies in Expertise Studying Task Designers at Work A Look at Two Designers Designing Language Teaching Tasks: Beginnings Designing Language Teaching Tasks: Middles and Ends The Good Task Designer: Some Hypotheses Evaluating and Teaching Task Design Appendices References Index...

Product details

• Authors: K Johnson, K. Johnson, Keith Johnson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2002
• EAN: 9780333984864
• ISBN: 978-0-333-98486-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, Literature, Linguistics, Language and Literature, Linguistics, general, Language: reference & general, Language: history & general works, Literary studies: general, Language Education, Stylistics, Language teaching and learning, Language and education, Language teaching & learning, Language and languages—Study and teaching, Language Teaching, Literature, general, Philology, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection