Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching with Technology

Hayo Reinders (www.innovationinteaching.org) is Head of Language and Learning Support at Middlesex University, London, UK, and Editor of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. Michael Thomas is Professor in English at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business, Japan, and Editor of International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments.

• 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 Teaching Andreas Muller-Hartmann and Marita Schocker-v. Ditfurth; 3. Task-Based Language Teaching in Networked-Based CALL: An Analysis of Research on Learner Interaction in Synchronous CMC Mark Peterson; 4. Taking Intelligent CALL to Task Matthias Schulze; 5. Effects of Multimodality in Computer-Mediated Communication Tasks Glenn Stockwell; 6. Measuring Complexity in Task-Based Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication Karina 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 2.0 Mirjam Hauck; 11. Afterword: Future Directions for Technology-Mediated Tasks Gary Motteram and Michael Thomas; Index.

'Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching with Technology' makes a number of useful contributions to the literature on tasks in CALL and TBLT... the volume provides a useful starting point for raising the TBLT community's awareness of CALL and vice versa and paves the way for the development of a common research agenda'