Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching with Technology / Edition 1

by Michael Thomas, Hayo Reinders

Overview

This edited collection considers the relationship between task-based language teaching (TBLT) and technology-enhanced learning.  TBLT is concerned with a number of macro-tasks such as information gathering and problem-solving as well as evaluative tasks, all of which are increasingly available via online and Web-based technologies.  Technology Enhanced Learning refers to a broad conception of technology use in the language classroom and incorporates a range of interactive learning technologies such as Interactive Whiteboards and mobile learning devices.

The popularity of Web 2.0 technologies (blogs, wikis, social networking sites, podcasting, virtual worlds), as well as practical applications of mobile learning, place a fresh emphasis on creating project-orientated language learning tasks with a clear real-world significance for learners of foreign languages.  This book examines the widespread interest in these new technology-enhanced learning environments and looks at how they are being used to promote task-based learning. This book will appeal to practioners and researchers in applied linguistics, second language acquisition and education studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441124012
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/07/2012
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Michael Thomas is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Chair of the Centre for Educational Research (CERES) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Hayo Reinders is Professor of Education and Head of Department at Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand, and Dean of the Graduate School at Anaheim University, USA. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal 'Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching'. Hayo's interests are in educational technology, learner autonomy, and out-of-class learning and his most recent books are on teaching methodologies, digital games, and second language acquisition.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations \ List of Figures and Tables \ List of Contributors \ Foreword Rod Ellis\ 1. Introduction Michael Thomas and Hayo Reinders \PART I. RESEARCH ON TASKS IN CALL \2. Research on the Use of Technology in Task-Based Language TeachingAndreas Müller-Hartmann and Marita Schocker-v. Ditfurth \3. Task-Based Language Teaching in Networked-Based CALL: An Analysis of Research on Learner Interaction in Synchronous CMCMark Peterson \4. Taking Intelligent CALL to TaskMatthias Schulze \5. Effects of Multimodality in Computer-Mediated Communication TasksGlenn Stockwell \6. Measuring Complexity in Task-Based Synchronous Computer-Mediated CommunicationKarina Collentine \PART II. APPLYING TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED TASKS \7. Task Design for a Virtual Learning Environment in a Distance Language Course Regine Hampel \8. Teacher Development, TBLT and Technology Thomas Raith and Volker Hegelheimer \9. Edubba: Real-world Writing Tasks in a Virtual World Kenneth Reeder \10. The Enactment of Task Design in Telecollaboration 2.0Mirjam Hauck \11. Afterword: Future Directions for Technology-Mediated TasksGary Motteram and Michael Thomas \Index