- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education (1 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0072310545
- ISBN-13: 978-0072310542
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.3 x 1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,482,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms is a significant new work in the area of classroom communication. This text takes a principled approach to how one can take the basic question-and-answer paradigm found in many, if not most, language textbooks and reformulate it into interactive tasks that place communication in the hands of the student-learners. This text is practical in terms of task development and task-based test design and development, and simultaneously well-grounded in theory and research. Continuing in the tradition of bringing theory, research, and practice together into one volume, Lee's work is a welcome addition to the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series.
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Each of the nine chapters in Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms begins with the "Chapter Overview" section so that students have the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the main topics that they will study in greater depth for a given chapter.
The activities presented in each chapter's subsection illustrate the material in such a way that they help students make a meaningful connection to this subject. For example, a section called
Application Activities (which involves various types of student participation) asks students to develop lesson plans that would reinforce what they have learned in that particular chapter. These are actual analysis, research, and development type exercises and not simply true/false or multiple-choice type assignments.
Throughout the text are also special items designed like magazine "pull-quotes" that appear next to the topics they introduce to provide additional information, notes, and so on.
At the end of each chapter, the Summary outlines the chapter's general content, to help synthesize the topics just studied, and it often provides a brief preview of the next chapter.
The Summary is followed by a special section called Gaining Greater Perspective. Similar to an annotated bibliography, it provides a concise list of books with an accompanying description for each book listed. The books included in this section are especially relevant to the content of the chapter just presented to the reader and are meant to encourage students to pursue further reading and research in this area.
The activities presented in each chapter's subsection illustrate the material in such a way that they help students make a meaningful connection to this subject. For example, a section called
Application Activities (which involves various types of student participation) asks students to develop lesson plans that would reinforce what they have learned in that particular chapter. These are actual analysis, research, and development type exercises and not simply true/false or multiple-choice type assignments.
Throughout the text are also special items designed like magazine "pull-quotes" that appear next to the topics they introduce to provide additional information, notes, and so on.
At the end of each chapter, the Summary outlines the chapter's general content, to help synthesize the topics just studied, and it often provides a brief preview of the next chapter.
The Summary is followed by a special section called Gaining Greater Perspective. Similar to an annotated bibliography, it provides a concise list of books with an accompanying description for each book listed. The books included in this section are especially relevant to the content of the chapter just presented to the reader and are meant to encourage students to pursue further reading and research in this area.
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Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms
29 Aug 2000
Format:Paperback
This review is written by a native Spanish teacher teaching High School Spanish in New Jersey. I enjoyed reading this book because it explains in a very comprehensible way what a task is, what makes task- based teaching different and more productive than the audiolingual method in the increment of oral production in second language learners. The book mainly concentrates on tasks for oral production, on how to create tasks, and how to implement and test them. The book teaches how to change from the teacher-student: question - answer paradigm to the student-student question - answer paradigm. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know about the creation of tasks,and their implementation and tests in second language settings. The book is also good for those who need to research information for further studies on tasks because it contains a large bibliography with reference to other books related to tasks with a brief summary of their contents.
Average book with a sub-par printing.
4 Feb 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
For a book that costs 54 dollars, I don't feel bad when I say that it's not in its favor to have pages that look like they were copied with a really bad coping machine. On the other hand, the content is OK, it's average, I think McGrawHill has a variety of different books centered around the same theme and Lee is the series editor ("Directions in Second Language Learning"). The book is concise and the chapters are short, but the only real reason you would want this book over the others is because it's on the syllabus.
Short version: Horrible printing, average content.
Short version: Horrible printing, average content.
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