Designing Language Teaching Tasks
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Designing Language Teaching Tasks

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eBook - PDF

Designing Language Teaching Tasks

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. 1 Why Study Task Design?
  6. 2 Some Studies in Expertise
  7. 3 Studying Task Designers at Work
  8. 4 A Look at Two Designers
  9. 5 Designing Language Teaching Tasks: Beginnings
  10. 6 Designing Language Teaching Tasks: Middles and Ends
  11. 7 The Good Task Designer: Some Hypotheses
  12. 8 Evaluating and Teaching Task Design
  13. Appendix 1 TADECS Codes with Working Definitions and Notes
  14. Appendix 2 Example of ATLAS.ti Coding
  15. Appendix 3 Example of an Action Box Sequence
  16. Appendix 4 Decisions Made by the End of Analyse
  17. Appendix 5 Some Designers Philosophise
  18. Appendix 6 The Designers’ Tasks
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index