Designing Language Teaching Tasks

Short-listed for the British Council Innovation Awards 2004 that promote and reward excellence in English Language Teaching Designing Language Teaching Tasks provides a research-based account of how experienced teachers and task designers prepare activities for use in the language classroom. It gives detailed information on the procedures which designers follow. The book is a description of research and will therefore interest applied linguists and students in the field. It is written in a clear and comprehensible way, and should appeal to all those who want to learn to write good language teaching materials.

Acknowledgements Why Study Task Design Some Studies in Expertise Studying Task Designers at Work A Look at Two Designers Designing Language Teaching Tasks: Beginnings Designing Language Teaching Tasks: Middles and Ends The Good Task Designer: Some Hypotheses Evaluating and Teaching Task Design Appendices References Index