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This book explores the relationship between research, teaching, and tasks, and seeks to clarify the issues raised by recent work in this field. The book shows how research and task-based teaching can mutually inform each other and illuminate the areas of task-based course design, methodology, and assessment. The author brings an accessible style and broad scope to an area of contemporary importance to both SLA and language pedagogy..
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"What grade did you give me?"students often ask teachers, as if teachers randomly assign grades. Too many students do not understand the concept of connecting grades to an earned academic performance. Improving students' understanding of what their teachers expect them to do, how well they should be able to do it, and how they should go about accomplishing it is what this book is all about.

The authors lead readers on their own personal journey, sharing what they've learned about developing and effectively assessing powerful performance tasks--ranging from short and specific to lengthy and substantive. Their focus is on the practical, the doable. You can learn from their successes as well as their mistakes.

The authors discuss a four-step approach for teaching students how to acquire content knowledge--labeled "Info In"--and examine four "Info Out" modes through which students can make their content understanding explicit for evaluation purposes. Great Performances is filled with highly motivating examples of student projects as well as effective assessment tools that teachers can adapt for their own classrooms.

Teaching to and assessing with performance tasks result in understanding--the type of understanding students will need in the world, where they will be expected to produce "Great Performances.".
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Gotcha! Speaking and Listening Activities for Intermediate Learners is a lively and innovative textbook designed for community colleges and adult ESL programs. It provides students with a wide variety of enticing and relevent topics with which to learn English. The text also includes a rich variety of activities in every unit to stimulate and hold learners' interest. This feature allows students with different learning styles to benefit and provides a signature that clearly places Gotcha! at the top of your list. Gotcha! Incorporates the following activities: Speaking activities to promote fluency and continuing use of new vocabulary, Task-based listening activities to offer students another opportunity to improve their listening skills, Realistic dialogues with surprising or unexpected endings. Hencce, the title Gotcha!, and listening comprehension to ensure that learners understand the implied nuances of the conversations as well as their facts..
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This book provides teachers with a better understanding of task-based learning and how it works, including how to incorporate tasks with textbook material..
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For the past 20 years, task-based language teaching (TBLT) has attracted the worldwide attention of researchers, curriculum developers, teacher trainers and language teachers. However, much of the available literature and research has been from a psycholinguistic perspective, driven by the desire to understand how people acquire a second language. Far less research has been carried out as to whether TBLT works for real teachers and real learners in a classroom environment. This book aims to offer a unique contribution by uniting a discussion of task-based pedagogical principles with descriptions of their application to real life language education problems. It provides an account of the many challenges and obstacles that the implementation of task-based language education raises and discusses the different options for overcoming them. The book contains a substantial body of new research from Flanders, where the implementation of TBLT has been a nationwide project for the past fifteen years in primary, secondary and adult education..
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The field of task-based language teaching has developed considerably since the publication of Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom (Nunan, 1989), a book which helped to set the research agenda in teaching methodology for the following decade. While Designing Tasks underpins this new title, the material has been thoroughly updated and includes four completely new chapters. Task-Based Language Teaching offers a comprehensive and up-to-date appraisal of the field..
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Use this practical , school tested book to develop performance units and assessments that are worthwhile and challenging Maximize student assessment results and reach the highest standards with the most complete "how to" resource of its kind. Achieve success with performance tasks and assessments across disciplines and grade levels. This easy-to-use guidebook provides the tools you need to successfully design, adapt, evaluate, refine or implement performance tasks and assessments. Take advantage of the step-by-step guides, easy-to-use designers and organizers, and extensive resource lists that are helping educators around the world.

Benefit From: * Practical, teacher-tested strategies and guidelines for developing classroom & system performance tasks * Step-by-step guidelines for developing effective rubrics * Easy-to-use tools for evaluating tasks, assessments, and rubrics * Templates to help align curriculum, instruction, & assessment * Guides & templates to support uniform assessment procedures * Resource lists of over

150 performance task ideas 120 usable performance contexts 190 formats for student products and performances 30 universal concepts and themes 80 assessment prompts for self-assessment & reflection 265 performance roles & audiences 80 critical tips for earning stakeholder support 150 additional resources * Clarification of multiple forms of assessment essential for thorough and effective assessment of student learning * A thesaurus of qualitative and quantitative terms for rubrics * Timesaving performance management & grading forms * Easy-to-use templates for planning performance scaffolding * A glossary of terms in easy-to-understand language.
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Task-based language instruction has proven to be highly effective, but surprisingly underutilized. Theory can only go so far and hands-on experience can greatly speed and enhance the learning of a second language. Nineteen talented instructors who have successfully implemented task-based programs explain the principles behind the programs, discuss how problems were resolved, and share details on class activities and program design. Each chapter takes the reader through the different stages in designing and setting up such programs, adjusting them, and appraising and testing them in normal classroom conditions. This book covers TBI syllabus and program design and is based on actual classroom experience. Any one of the courses or programs discussed can serve as models for others. Many of the contributors are highly respected practitioners who are presenting their programs for the first time, while others are regular participants in today's ongoing dialogue about teaching methods. Full of concrete, adaptable models of task-based language teaching--drawn from a number of countries and eleven different languages from Arabic to Ukrainian, and including web-based activities-Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education presents proven, real-world, practical courses and programs. It demonstrates useful and practical ways to engage students far beyond what can be learned from reading textbook dialogue. TBI involves the student directly with the language being taught via cognitively engaging activities that reflect authentic and purposeful use of language, resulting in language-learning experiences that are pleasurable and effective. For all instructors seeking to help their learnersenhance their understanding and grasp of the foreign language they are learning, Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education is a rich and rewarding hands-on guide to effective and trans-formative learning..
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