Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching by Rod Ellis

Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching by Rod Ellis

This book discusses whether task-based language teaching is appropriate for all learners in all instructional contexts. Chapters cover both research and pedagogy and draw on the author's experience of working with teachers to suggest ways of addressing the problems they often face with task-based language teaching.

Rod Ellis has written (yet another) agenda-setting book, this time charting a journey through key issues in task-based language teachingThis is a must-read for researchers committed to the pedagogic relevance of their work, and for language educators in search of a deeper understanding of task-based research and pedagogy.

* Jonathan Newton, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand *

This comprehensive yet personal book will be invaluable reading for very diverse audiences. Synthesizing a lifetime of engagement with language education and tasks, Rod Ellis proposes an options-based approach that can be flexibly adapted across geographies and masterfully re-examines the quandaries cognitive and social researchers investigate through the questions teachers ask.

* Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, USA *

This review has recommended Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching in particular to teacher educators and to researchers. However, classroom teachers
at whatever stage of their career will find plenty to guide them in their teaching.
Chapter 5, titled “Preparing learners to perform tasks,” is one good example. This is a book which should sell well and which will probably give fresh ideas to classroom teachers, whether or not they are also researchers.

-- Marilyn Lewis, University of Auckland, New Zealand * TESOL Theory and Praxis, Volume 4 Issue 1 *

[This book] is an honour to the work of one of the most esteemed scholars in TBLT.

-- Melissa Baralt, Florida International University, USA * ELT Journal, Volume 73, Issue 2, April 2019 *

[This book] comprehensively examines the theoretical and pedagogic aspects of task-based language teaching (TBLT), one of the long-standing topics in instructed SLA, and offers insights into TBLT as an approach to second language teaching. Ellis’ (2003) previous book, Task-based Language Learning and Teaching, focuses on research and theories underlying TBLT. The current book complements his previous work by shedding more light on pedagogic issues related to TBLT.

-- Taichi Yamashita and Long He, Iowa State University, USA * Applied Linguistics 2019: 1–5 *

Rod Ellis is Research Professor in the School of Education, Curtin University, Australia, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand and a Visiting Professor at Shanghai International Studies University. He is also an Appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has researched and published extensively in the fields of second language acquisition, language teaching and teacher education.

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ISBN 13	9781788920131
ISBN 10	1788920139
Title	Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching
Author	Rod Ellis
Series	Second Language Acquisition
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Multilingual Matters
Year published	2018-06-18
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.