Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning - Advances in Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research

Brief Description: "Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning provides theoretical rationales for, and empirical studies of, the effects of sequencing language learning tasks to maximize second language learning. Examples of task sequences, and both laboratory and classroom-based research into them, are presented. This is the first collection of so far under-researched studies on the effects of task sequencing, framed within the Cognition Hypothesis of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the SSARC model for task sequencing. Perspectives include -- laboratory-based and classroom-based research designs -- implications for teacher training -- laboratory and classroom research methods -- conversational interaction -- task sequencing and Task Based Language Teaching syllabus design"--Marc Notes: Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning provides theoretical rationales for, and empirical studies of, the effects of sequencing language learning tasks to maximize second language learning. Examples of task sequences, and both laboratory and classroom-based research into them, are presented. This is the first collection of so far under-researched studies on the effects of task sequencing, framed within the Cognition Hypothesis of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the SSARC model for task sequencing. Perspectives include -- laboratory-based and classroom-based research designs -- implications for teacher training -- laboratory and classroom research methods -- conversational interaction -- task sequencing and Task Based Language Teaching syllabus design--; Provided by publisher. Biographical Note: Melissa Baralt is Assistant Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics at Florida International University, USA. Roger Gilabert is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Universitat de Barcelona, SpainPeter Robinson is Professor of Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan. Table of Contents:"List of contributors""Acknowledgements"Chapter 1. An introduction to theory and research in task sequencing and instructed second language learning, "Melissa Baralt, Roger Gilabert & Peter Robinson"Section I. Experimental studies of task sequencingChapter 2. Task sequencing in the L2 development of spatial expressions, "Mayya Levkina & Roger Gilabert"Chapter 3. The role of task sequencing in monologic oral production, "Aleksandra Malicka"Chapter 4. Task complexity and task sequencing in traditional versus online language classes, "Melissa Baralt"Chapter 5. The effects of guided planning, task complexity and task sequencing on L2 oral production, " Colin Thompson"Section II. Educationally situated studies of task sequencing in natural classroom contextsChapter 6. A pedagogical proposal for task sequencing: An exploration of task repetition and task complexity on learning opportunities, "YouJin Kim & Caroline Payant"Chapter 7. Teachers application of the Cognition Hypothesis when lesson planning: A case study, "Melissa Baralt, Simone Harmath-de Lemmos & Sawsan Werfelli"Chapter 8. Learning to perform narrative tasks: A semester-long classroom study of task sequencing effects, "Craig Lambert & Peter Robinson""Subject index"

Contributor Bio:  Baralt, Melissa Melissa Baralt is Assistant Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics at Florida International University, USA. Contributor Bio:  Gilabert, Roger Melissa Baralt is Assistant Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics at Florida International University, USA. Contributor Bio:  Robinson, Peter Peter Robinson spent six years as a speechwriter in the Reagan White House. Among his speeches was the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech, which Reagan delivered in Berlin in 1987. Robinson is the host of the PBS television program, Uncommon Knowledge, and the author of two previous books, It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP and Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA. A fellow at the Hoover Institution, he lives in Stanford, California.