Task-based research and language pedagogy

• Published in: Language teaching research : LTR Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 193 - 220
• Main Author: Ellis, Rod
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Thousand Oaks, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2000; Turpin; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Communicative competence; Computational Linguistics; Cultural instruction; Curriculum subjects: programmes and methods; Educational sciences; Interpersonal communication; Language; Language Research; Language Usage; Learning Theories; Modern language; Pedagogy; Psycholinguistics; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Social Theories; Sociocultural Patterns; Sociocultural theory; Task Analysis; Task-based language teaching; Teaching Methods; Language Teaching; Teaching method; Psycholinguistics; Cognition; Learning Psychology; Research; Improvisation; Second Foreign Language

Two very different theoretical accounts of task-based language use and learning are critiqued and their relevance for language pedagogy discussed. One account, which will be referred to as the psycholinguistic perspective, draws on a computational model of second language (L2) acquisition (Lantolf,...