Name: Task-Based Language Teaching and Assessment By N. P. Sudharshana
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Task-Based Language Teaching and Assessment: Contemporary Reflections from Across the World by N. P. Sudharshana

This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on task-based language teaching (TBLT) and task-based language assessment (TBLA) in English as a second language (ESL) context. It discusses theoretical and experimental insights of TBLT and TBLA from cognitive, cognitive linguistic, and psycholinguistic viewpoints. The chapters, written by leading language teaching specialists in the field, introduce the reader to a comprehensive range of issues related to TBLT and TBLA such as curriculum design, materials development, and classroom teaching & testing. With interdisciplinary appeal, the book is a valuable resource for researchers in task-based language teaching and assessment. It is equally useful for teachers to whom it offers practical suggestions for designing tasks for teaching and testing.

About N. P. Sudharshana

N. P. Sudharshana is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kanpur, India. His main research areas include applying cognitive semantics to teaching and learning English as a second language, materials development, and classroom language testing. He has previously worked with many state governments in India on school curriculum design and implementation projects. He is the co-author of English for Technical Communication (2016) and English for Engineers (2018) both published by Cambridge University Press, India.
Lina Mukhopadhyay is Professor in the School of English Language Education, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. Her research interests are second language acquisition, reading development, language assessment and testing, and bi/multilingual education, and she has publications in each of these areas. She is currently involved in a multilingual education project in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and funded by the ESRC-DFID, UK. The five-year-long project is examining the interrelatedness of language of instruction, school skills, and cognition of young learners studying in challenging contexts in government low-aid primary schools in India.

SECTION A: TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING
Chapter 1 Task-Based Language Teaching: A Multifaceted ApproachN.P. Sudharshana and Lina Mukhopadhyay
Chapter 2 'Second Thoughts on Second Language' N.S. Prabhu
Chapter 3 'The Undiscovered Vygotsky in Prabhu' Esther Ramani and Michael Joseph
Chapter 4 'Task-based Language Teaching: Early Days, Now, and into the Future' Rod Ellis
Chapter 5 'An Evolution of a Framework for TBLT: What Trainers and Teachers Need to Know to Help Learners Succeed in Task-based Learning' Jane Willis
Chapter 6 'From Needs Analysis to Task-based Design: Methodology, Assessment and Program Evaluation' Roger Gilabert and Aleksandra Malicka
Chapter 7 'Differentiating task repetition from task rehearsal'Gavin Bui and Rhett
Chapter 8 'Task Complexity and Language Proficiency: Its Effect on L2 Writing Production' Veena Nair and Shruti Sircar
Chapter 9 'From Cognitive Grammar to Pedagogic Grammar: Macrostrategies for Designing Form Focussed Tasks' N.P. Sudharshana
Chapter 10 'Designing and Using Tasks to Foster Metaphoric Competence among Learners in Indian Contexts' Baburam Upadhaya and N.P. Sudharshana

SECTION B: TASK-BASED LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
Chapter 11 Task-Based Language Assessment for large-scale and classroom-based oral and print assessments Lina Mukhopadhyay and N.P. Sudharshana
Chapter 12 'Validation of a large-scale task-based test: Functional progression in dialogic speaking performance' Chihiro Inoue and Fumiyo Nakatshuhara
Chapter 13 'Communicative Strategies as a Tool for Assessing Spoken Interactional Competence ' Pankaj Narke Chapter 14 'Effects of Task-Structure and Interaction Conditions of Oral Performance'Sajit Mathews and N. P. Sudharshana Chapter 15 'Using Task-Based Speaking Assessment to measure lexical and syntactic knowledge: Implications for ESL learning' Vasim Tamboli Chapter 16 'Whole Text Reading Comprehension: An Application of Task-Based Language Assessment 'Vrishali K. Patil Chapter 17 'Tasks in language acquisition research: more than what meets the blinking eye'Shruti Sircar and Lina Mukhopadhyay

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9789811642289

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9811642281

Title

Task-Based Language Teaching and Assessment: Contemporary Reflections from Across the World by N. P. Sudharshana

Author

N. P. Sudharshana

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Springer Verlag, Singapore

Year published

2023-02-07

Number of pages

374

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Task-Based Language Teaching and Assessment: Contemporary Reflections from Across the World by N. P. Sudharshana

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