TY  - GEN
AU  - Long, Mike 
TI  - Second language acquisition and task-based language teaching
SN  - 9780470658949
U1  - 418.0071 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Chichester
PB  - Wiley Blackwell
KW  - Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching
KW  - Language and languages -- Study and teaching
N2  - This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully.

Combines a survey of theory and research in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) with insights from language teaching and the philosophy of education
Details best practice for TBLT programs, including discussion of learner needs and means analysis; syllabus design; materials writing; choice of methodological principles and pedagogic procedures; criterion-referenced, task-based performance assessment; and program evaluation
Written by an esteemed scholar of second language acquisition with over 30 years of research and classroom experience
Considers diffusion of innovation in education and the potential impact of TBLT on foreign and second language learning
ER  -