TASKS AND COMMUNICATING IN LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS [Paperback]

James Lee (Author)

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Paperback: 184 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 1 edition (Aug 10 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0072310545
ISBN-13: 978-0072310542
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.3 x 1 cm
Shipping Weight: 318 g

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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.

About the Author

James F. Lee is the Head of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of second language reading comprehension, input processing, and exploring the relationship between the two. His research has appeared in a number of scholarly journals and publications, including the co-authored books with Alessandro Benati Second Language Processing: Theory, Problems and Possible Solutions (2007, Continuum) and Delivering Processing Instruction in Classrooms and Virtual Contexts (2007, Equinox). Other publications include the book Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms (2000, McGraw-Hill) and the co-authored book Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen, Second Edition (2003, McGraw-Hill). He has also co-authored secveral textbooks, including ¿Sabias que…? Beginning Spanish, Vistazos, ¿Qué te parece?, and Ideas: Lecturas, estrategias, actividades y composiciones. He and Bill VanPatten are series editors for the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms, Aug 29 2000

By Leandra Parsons - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: TASKS AND COMMUNICATING IN LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS (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.

3.0 out of 5 stars Average book with a sub-par printing., Feb 3 2009

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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.

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