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Designing Language Teaching Tasks

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  • © 2003

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  1. Keith Johnson
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Why Study Task Design?

    • Keith Johnson
    Pages 1-10

  3. Some Studies in Expertise

    • Keith Johnson
    Pages 11-27

  4. Studying Task Designers at Work

    • Keith Johnson
    Pages 28-55

  5. A Look at Two Designers

    • Keith Johnson
    Pages 56-72

  6. Designing Language Teaching Tasks: Beginnings

    • Keith Johnson
    Pages 73-95

  7. Designing Language Teaching Tasks: Middles and Ends

    • Keith Johnson
    Pages 96-125

  8. The Good Task Designer: Some Hypotheses

    • Keith Johnson
    Pages 126-137

  9. Evaluating and Teaching Task Design

    • Keith Johnson
    Pages 138-145

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 185-196
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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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'A very comprehensive book including processes, procedures and useful frameworks and examples. A very through and useful companion for all classroom teachers.' - Dr Christine Pegg, Department of Communication, Cardiff University

About the author

KEITH JOHNSON is Professor of Linguistics and Language Education at Lancaster University. His recent publications include An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (2001), Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics (1998), and Language Teaching and Skill Learning (1996). He is the founding editor of the journal Language Teaching Research.

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