{"product_id":"task-based-language-teaching-and-assessment-contemporary-reflections-from-across-the-world-9789811642258","title":"Task-Based Language Teaching and Assessment: Contemporary Reflections from Across the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on task-based language teaching (TBLT) and task-based language assessment (TBLA) in English as a second language (ESL) context. It discusses theoretical and experimental insights of TBLT and TBLA from cognitive, cognitive linguistic, and psycholinguistic viewpoints. The chapters, written by leading language teaching specialists in the field, introduce the reader to a comprehensive range of issues related to TBLT and TBLA such as curriculum design, materials development, and classroom teaching \u0026amp; testing. With interdisciplinary appeal, the book is a valuable resource for researchers in task-based language teaching and assessment. It is equally useful for teachers to whom it offers practical suggestions for designing tasks for teaching and testing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION A: TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Task-Based Language Teaching: A Multifaceted ApproachN.P. Sudharshana and Lina Mukhopadhyay\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 ‘Second Thoughts on Second Language’ N.S. Prabhu\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 ‘The Undiscovered Vygotsky in Prabhu’ Esther Ramani and Michael Joseph \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 ‘Task-based Language Teaching: Early Days, Now, and into the Future’ Rod Ellis        \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 ‘An Evolution of a Framework for TBLT: What Trainers and Teachers Need to Know to Help Learners Succeed in Task-based Learning’ Jane Willis\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 ‘From Needs Analysis to Task-based Design: Methodology, Assessment and Program Evaluation’ Roger Gilabert and Aleksandra Malicka  \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 ‘Differentiating task repetition from task rehearsal’Gavin Bui and Rhett  \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 ‘Task Complexity and Language Proficiency: Its Effect on L2 Writing Production’ Veena Nair and Shruti Sircar \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 ‘From Cognitive Grammar to Pedagogic Grammar: Macrostrategies for Designing Form Focussed Tasks’ N.P. Sudharshana  \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10 'Designing and Using Tasks to Foster Metaphoric Competence among Learners in Indian Contexts’ Baburam Upadhaya and N.P. Sudharshana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION B: TASK-BASED LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11 Task-Based Language Assessment for large-scale and classroom-based oral and print assessments Lina Mukhopadhyay and N.P. Sudharshana \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12 ‘Validation of a large-scale task-based test: Functional progression in dialogic speaking performance’ Chihiro Inoue and Fumiyo Nakatshuhara\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13 ‘Communicative Strategies as a Tool for Assessing Spoken Interactional Competence ’ Pankaj Narke Chapter 14 ‘Effects of Task-Structure and Interaction Conditions of Oral Performance’Sajit Mathews and N. P. Sudharshana  Chapter 15 ‘Using Task-Based Speaking Assessment to measure lexical and syntactic knowledge: Implications for ESL learning’ Vasim Tamboli Chapter 16 ‘Whole Text Reading Comprehension: An Application of Task-Based Language Assessment ’Vrishali K. Patil   Chapter 17 ‘Tasks in language acquisition research: more than what meets the blinking eye’Shruti Sircar and Lina Mukhopadhyay \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer Verlag, Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53212829614423,"sku":"9789811642258","price":113.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/task-based-language-teaching-and-assessment-contemporary-reflections-from-across-the-world-9789811642258","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}