Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching
Winner - British Council Innovation in English Language Teaching Award 2006 This book was written for language teachers by language teachers, with a view to encouraging readers to use more tasks in their lessons, and to explore for themselves various aspe
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Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching
Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching
‘Jane Willis’ and Corony Edwards’ edited collection of papers, Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching, offers an excellent “making public” of the variety of ways in which teachers use tasks to better understand their teaching and their students’ learning. The range of reports – focusing on students, on content, and on classroom communities in a variety of geographical and educational settings – is impressive. In adopting task-based teaching, as Willis and Edwards define it, the contributors to this collection write about their classroom practices from a common point of view, creating in a sense a shared “grammar” of the classroom. This approach then makes their accounts both very readable and, I would think, highly replicable by readers. Clearly, classroom teaching generally, and ELT teaching in particular, is coming of age as teachers explore what and how their students learn, and articulate the understandings that result from their explorations, as they do in this volume.’—Donald Freeman, Dean Language Teacher Education, School for International Training, USA
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‘ESL teachers in the United States and other English-speaking countries can make effective use of every chapter in the book’—Betty Lou Leaver, Dean, New York Institute of Technology in Amman, Jordan ‘High quality, extremely readable and accessible … I anticipate that this volume will be extremely popular with classroom teachers. I found it refreshing, and even exciting, to read accounts of professional practice by people who have not hitherto been widely published. The volume will be useful not only on MA courses but also on a wide range of inservice courses … an exciting and innovative project.’—Professor David Nunan, The English Centre, Hong Kong ‘Classroom teaching and learning ordinarily center on specific language tasks. Instruction becomes more effective when teachers understand the role of language tasks, recognize their students’ needs, and apply both
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types of information in a sound, creative way. With better task-based instruction as a goal, current and future teachers will benefit from the enlightening explorations in this book. In addition, researchers will f
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