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- The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language Teaching
- Cambridge Handbooks In Language And Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language Teaching
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface The Origins and Growth of Task-Based Language Teaching
- Part I The Rationale for Task-Based Language Teaching
- 1 The Psycholinguistics of Task-Based Performance
- 2 A Pedagogical Rationale for Task-Based Language Teaching for the Acquisition of Real-World Language Use
- Part II Tasks and Needs Analysis
- Part III The Task Syllabus and Materials
- Part IV Methodology and Pedagogy
- Part V Task-Based Language Teaching with School-Age Children
- Part VI The Teacher in Task-Based Language Teaching
- Part VII Task-Based Assessment and Program Evaluation
- Part VIII Research Needs and Future Prospects
- Index
- References
2 - A Pedagogical Rationale for Task-Based Language Teaching for the Acquisition of Real-World Language Use
from Part I - The Rationale for Task-Based Language Teaching
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language Teaching
- Cambridge Handbooks In Language And Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language Teaching
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface The Origins and Growth of Task-Based Language Teaching
- Part I The Rationale for Task-Based Language Teaching
- 1 The Psycholinguistics of Task-Based Performance
- 2 A Pedagogical Rationale for Task-Based Language Teaching for the Acquisition of Real-World Language Use
- Part II Tasks and Needs Analysis
- Part III The Task Syllabus and Materials
- Part IV Methodology and Pedagogy
- Part V Task-Based Language Teaching with School-Age Children
- Part VI The Teacher in Task-Based Language Teaching
- Part VII Task-Based Assessment and Program Evaluation
- Part VIII Research Needs and Future Prospects
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter focuses on three dimensions of tasks we consider essential to task-based language learning. First is their meaningful dimension, which brings learners into contact with patterns and functional uses of a wide range of language features. It also provides them the context for interpreting grammatical features and unlocking relationships between them, and for investing new language with their own shared socio-cultural meanings. Second, the accessibility of new language is promoted by a combination of implicit task-based processes and explicit classroom processes. Thirdly, we adopt Spada and Lightbown’s concept of integration to bring together the meaningful and accessibility principles, with tasks providing the context for both.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language Teaching , pp. 27 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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