| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 198 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Task-based language teaching : issues, research and practice (TBLT), 1877-346X ; volume 9 |
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Task-based language teaching ; v. 9.
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| Contents |
Getting started with task-based teaching -- The starting point -- presentation, practice, production (PPP) -- Moving forward -- task-based language teaching -- Input-based TBLT -- Conclusion -- Task-based language teaching in "difficult" contexts -- Background: "Communicative English ability" in Japan -- English education in the elementary school in Japan -- Issues in implementing TBLT in Japan -- Institutional factors -- Linguistic syllabus versus task-based syllabus -- Examination system -- Classroom factors -- Learners' ability -- Shared L1 -- Large, teacher-centred classrooms -- Unmotivated students -- Teacher factors -- Teachers' knowledge and skills -- Teachers' willingness to innovate -- Dissatisfaction with the status quo -- Support systems -- Conclusion -- Theoretical foundation of task-based language teaching -- What is incidental and intentional learning and how does incidental/intentional language acquisition take place in PPP and TBLT? -- Intentional L2 acquisition -- Incidental L2 acquisition -- Incidental learning in TBLT -- Incidental learning in PPP -- Summary -- How has incidental and intentional language acquisition been compared in previous studies? -- What theoretical perspectives support language acquisition through input? -- Comprehensible input -- Relation between comprehension and acquisition -- In what ways does interaction in the classroom create opportunities for L2 learning? -- Focus on form -- Negotiation of meaning in PPP and TBLT -- Error correction in PPP and TBLT -- Corrective feedback -- Initiate-respond-feedback (IRF) -- Role of output in PPP and TBLT -- What does previous research tell us about task repetition? |
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What do we currently know about how young, beginner L2 learners acquire vocabulary and grammar? -- Learning L2 vocabulary -- Jiang's theory of lexical representation -- The Involvement Load Hypothesis -- Learning L2 Grammar -- What steps can be taken to improve the validity of a comparative method study? -- Issues in research methodologies comparing TBLT and PPP -- Comparative method studies -- Conversation analysis -- Conclusion -- Introducing the comparative method study of PPP and TBLT -- Participants -- Instructional treatments -- Instructional materials and procedures for the PPP group -- Activity 1: Listen and Repeat -- Activity 2: Guess the hidden items -- Activity 3: Throwing dice -- Activity 4: Production Bingo game -- Activity 5: Kim's game -- Instructional materials and procedures for the TBLT group -- Task 1: Help the zoo and the supermarket -- Task 2: Help the animals -- Task 3: Listening Bingo game -- Instructional materials for the control group -- Research design -- Recording and transcribing of lessons -- Target features -- Target vocabulary items -- Target grammatical features -- Testing materials -- Vocabulary tests -- Multiple-choice comprehension test -- Discrete-item production test -- Category task -- Same-or-Different task -- Plural tests -- Plural -s comprehension test -- Wug test -- Copula tests -- Task-based copula 'be' production test: Tell-and-Do Task -- Discrete-item copula be production test: Sentence production test -- Testing order -- Reliability of the testing instruments -- Data analysis -- Conclusion -- Comparing the process features of the two types of instruction -- Turn-taking -- Characteristics of turn-taking in the PPP lessons -- Occurrence of IRF exchanges -- Question type -- Control of turn-taking -- Turns in chorus -- Topic -- Length and frequency of turns -- Summary |
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Characteristics of turn-taking in the TBLT lessons -- Occurrence of IRF exchanges -- Question types -- Control of turn-taking -- Topic -- Length and frequency of turn -- Summary -- Repair -- Characteristics of repair in the PPP lessons -- Self-initiated self-repair -- Self-initiated other-repair -- Other-initiated self-repair -- Other-initiated other-repair -- Summary -- Characteristics of repair in the TBLT lessons -- Self-initiated self-repair -- Self-initiated other-repair -- Other-initiated self-repair -- Other-initiated other-repair -- Summary -- Differences between the two groups -- Conclusion -- Learning vocabulary through PPP and TBLT -- Test results for nouns -- Test results for adjectives -- Input and output in the classroom -- Frequency of target words in the teacher's and the students' production -- Types of teacher production -- Types of learner production -- Discussion -- Why did both TBLT and the PPP show similar results for nouns? -- Why did the TBLT group perform better than the PPP group in the category task for nouns? -- Why did the TBLT group perform better than the PPP group for adjectives in all four tests? -- Vocabulary acquisition and task-induced involvement load -- Conclusion -- Incidental acquisition of grammatical features in PPP and TBLT -- Test results -- Data Analysis -- Discussion -- Discussion -- Data analysis -- Test results -- Conclusion -- Theoretical implications of the study -- Incidental and intentional vocabulary learning -- Negotiation of meaning and form -- Input-based instruction versus production-based instruction -- Pushed output -- Task induced involvement load -- Skill-specificity -- Summary -- Incidental grammar acquisition -- Conversational differences of PPP and TBLT -- Focus on form in TBLT lessons -- Research methodology -- Future research -- Conclusion -- TBLT in elementary schools in Japan |
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Ideological issues -- References -- Appendix A . Transcription Conventions (adapted from Markee, 2008) -- Appendix B. Inferential statistics for vocabulary tests -- Appendix C. Statistical results for the multiple-choice plural -s listening test -- Procedures -- Test results for nouns (for Table 6.1) -- Within-group comparisons -- Between-group comparison results -- Test Results of adjectives (for Table 6.4) -- Within-group comparisons -- Between-group comparisons -- Test results for process features (for Tables 6.8-6.10) -- Results for test scores -- Within-group comparisons -- Between-group comparisons -- Comparisons between the number of 'acquired' and 'not acquired' students -- Within-group comparisons -- Between-group comparisons |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
English language -- Study and teaching -- Japan
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Japanese speakers.
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Task analysis in education -- Japan
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Education, Bilingual -- Japan
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EDUCATION -- Elementary.
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Education, Bilingual
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English language -- Study and teaching
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Japanese speakers
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Task analysis in education
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016006656 |
| ISBN |
9789027267306 |
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9027267308 |
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