Task-Based Language Teaching and Assessment: Contemporary Reflections from Across the World

SECTION A: TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING Chapter 1 Task-Based Language Teaching: A Multifaceted Approach N.P. Sudharshana and Lina Mukhopadhyay Chapter 2 ‘Second Thoughts on Second Language’ N.S. Prabhu Chapter 3 ‘The Undiscovered Vygotsky in Prabhu’ Esther Ramani and Michael Joseph Chapter 4 ‘Task-based Language Teaching: Early Days, Now, and into the Future’ Rod Ellis Chapter 5 ‘An Evolution of a Framework for TBLT: What Trainers and Teachers Need to Know to Help Learners Succeed in Task-based Learning’ Jane Willis Chapter 6 ‘From Needs Analysis to Task-based Design: Methodology, Assessment and Program Evaluation’ Roger Gilabert and Aleksandra Malicka Chapter 7 ‘Differentiating task repetition from task rehearsal’ Gavin Bui and Rhett Chapter 8 ‘Task Complexity and Language Proficiency: Its Effect on L2 Writing Production’ Veena Nair and Shruti Sircar Chapter 9 ‘From Cognitive Grammar to Pedagogic Grammar: Macrostrategies for Designing Form Focussed Tasks’ N.P. Sudharshana Chapter 10 ‘Designing and Using Tasks to Foster Metaphoric Competence among Learners in Indian Contexts’ Baburam Upadhaya and N.P. Sudharshana SECTION B: TASK-BASED LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT Chapter 11 Task-Based Language Assessment for large-scale and classroom-based oral and print assessments Lina Mukhopadhyay and N.P. Sudharshana Chapter 12 ‘Validation of a large-scale task-based test: Functional progression in dialogic speaking performance’ Chihiro Inoue and Fumiyo Nakatshuhara Chapter 13 ‘Communicative Strategies as a Tool for Assessing Spoken Interactional Competence ‘ Pankaj Narke Chapter 14 ‘Effects of Task-Structure and Interaction Conditions of Oral Performance’ Sajit Mathews and N. P. Sudharshana Chapter 15 ‘Using Task-Based Speaking Assessment to measure lexical and syntactic knowledge: Implications for ESL learning’ Vasim Tamboli Chapter 16 ‘Whole Text Reading Comprehension: An Application of Task-Based Language Assessment ‘ Vrishali K. Patil Chapter 17 ‘Tasks in language acquisition research: more than what meets the blinking eye’ Shruti Sircar and Lina Mukhopadhyay