Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning

Melissa Baralt, Roger Gilabert, Peter Robinson, Melissa Baralt, Roger Gilabert, Peter Robinson

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781474274074
• eBook ISBN:
  9781472570253
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning provides theoretical rationales for, and empirical studies of, the effects of sequencing language learning tasks to maximize second language learning. Examples of task sequences, and both laboratory and classroom-based research into them, are presented.

This is the first collection of so far under-researched studies on the effects of task sequencing, framed within the Cognition Hypothesis of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the SSARC model for task sequencing.

Perspectives include

-- laboratory-based and classroom-based research designs
-- implications for teacher training
-- laboratory and classroom research methods
-- conversational interaction
-- task sequencing and Task Based Language Teaching syllabus design

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series
• Title Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 An Introduction to Theory and Research in Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning Melissa Baralt, Roger Gilabert and Peter Robinson
• Section I. Experimental Studies of Task Sequencing
• 2 Task Sequencing in the L2 Development of Spatial Expressions Mayya Levkina and Roger Gilabert
• 3 The Role of Task Sequencing in Monologic Oral Production Aleksandra Malicka
• 4 Task Complexity and Task Sequencing in Traditional Versus Online Language Classes Melissa Baralt
• 5 The Effects of Guided Planning, Task Complexity and Task Sequencing on L2 Oral Production Colin Thompson
• Section II. Educationally Situated Studies of Task Sequencing in Natural Classroom Contexts
• 6 A Pedagogical Proposal for Task Sequencing: An Exploration of Task Repetition and Task Complexity on Learning Opportunities YouJin Kim and Caroline Payant
• 7 Teachers’ Application of the Cognition Hypothesis when Lesson Planning: A Case Study Melissa Baralt, Simone Harmath-de Lemos and Sawsan Werfelli
• 8 Learning to Perform Narrative Tasks: A Semester-long Classroom Study of L2 Task Sequencing Effects Craig Lambert and Peter Robinson
• Index
• Copyright