Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching

<p>This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully.</p> <ul> <li>Combines a survey of theory and research in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) with insights from language teaching and the philosophy of education</li> <li>Details best practice for TBLT programs, including discussion of learner needs and means analysis; syllabus design; materials writing; choice of methodological principles and pedagogic procedures; criterion-referenced, task-based performance assessment; and program evaluation</li> <li>Written by an esteemed scholar of second language acquisition with over 30 years of research and classroom experience</li> <li>Considers diffusion of innovation in education and the potential impact of TBLT on foreign and second language learning</li> </ul>