Referent Similarity and Nominal Syntax in Task-Based Language Teaching

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Building on insights from over 50 years of research on the relationship between task demands and language use, it examines how referent similarity relates to developmentally-relevant variation in the use of nominal structures, comparative structures and abstract lexis among first and second language speakers of English.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-01-30
Mått155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt300 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor154
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811330889

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Craig Lambert is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He has taught in post-graduate TESOL programs at Anaheim University in the United States and at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, and has more than 20 years of hands-on teaching experience in Japan, where he worked as an English teacher, course coordinator and teacher trainer. His research on second language speech processing, syntactic development, task-based learning and learner engagement has been published internationally.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. L2 Performance and Incidental SLA.- Chapter 3. Referential Communication and L2 Production.- Chapter 4. Tasks in L2 Syllabus Design.- Chapter 5. Referent Similarity.- Chapter 6. Referent Similarity and L2 Production.- Chapter 7. Methods.- Chapter 8. Results.- Chapter 9. Referent Similarity and TBLT.- References.- Appendix 1. Materials for the Study.- Appendix 2. Noun Phrase Coding Manual.- Appendix 3. Full Descriptive Statistics for NP Complexity.