Researching Pedagogic Tasks : Second Language Learning, Teaching, and Testing

Task-based learning in teaching is where an activity has been designed to help achieve a particular learning goal.

This volume brings together a series of studies by different researchers on the impact of tasks in second language teaching, testing and development.

It reviews a number of issues which include recent research into task-based learning: the effect of tasks on speaking, listening and oral interaction, the role of the teacher in exploiting tasks and the nature of the task based curriculum.