Introduction:Aims and Explorations into Tasks and Task-based Teaching&Jane Willis 1
1 Task-based Language Learning and Teaching:Theories and Applications&Ali Shehadeh 13
Part A Implementing Task-based Learning:Contexts and Purposes 31
2 Developing from PPP to TBL:A Focused Grammar Task&Lamprini Loumpourdi 33
3 Integrating Task-based Learning into a Business English Programme&Patricia Pullin Stark 40
4 Language as Topic:Learner-Teacher Investigation of Concordances&Raymond Sheehan 50
5 Storytelling with Low-level Learners:Developing Narrative Tasks&Patrick Kiernan 58
6 Adding Tasks to Textbooks for Beginner Learners&Theron Muller 69
7 Using Language-focused Learning Journals on a Task-based Course&Jason Moser 78
Part B Exploring Task Interaction:Helping Learners Do Better 89
8 Exam-oriented Tasks:Transcripts,Turn-taking and Backchannelling&Maria Leedham 93
9 Training Young Learners in Meaning Negotiation Skills:Does It Help?&Seung-Min Lee 103
10 Task Repetition with 10-year-old Children&Annamaria Pinter 113
11 Collaborative Tasks for Cross-cultural Communication&David Coulson 127
Part C Exploring Task Language:Lexical Phrases and Patterns 139
12 Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks&James Hobbs 143
13 Multi-word Chunks in Oral Tasks&Maggie Baigent 157
14 Can We Predict Language Items for Open Tasks?&David Cox 171
Part D Investigating Variables:Task Conditions and Task Types 187
15 Fighting Fossilization:Language at the Task Versus Report Stages&Craig Johnston 191
16 Storytelling:Effects of Planning,Repetition and Context&William Essig 201
17 The Effect of Pre-task Planning Time on Task-based Performance&Antigone Djapoura 214
18 Balancing Fluency,Accuracy and Complexity Through Task Characteristics&Gregory Birch 228
19 Quality Interaction and Types of Negotiation in Problem-solving and Jigsaw Tasks&Glen Poupore 242
Epilogue:Teachers Exploring Research&Corony Edwards 256
References 280
Index 288