Designing language teaching tasks

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1.1 Designing language teaching tasks: an expertise study and a procedural analysis......Page 12
1.2 Applied linguistic expertise studies: a sparsely populated terrain......Page 13
1.3 Tasks and activities......Page 15
1.4 The need for applied linguistic expertise studies......Page 17
1.5 The ESRC project......Page 18
1.7 Plan of the book......Page 20
1.8 Troublesome pronouns......Page 21
2.1 Studies into the general nature of expertise......Page 22
2.2 Specific expertise studies of particular relevance......Page 28
2.3 Conclusion......Page 38
3.1 The design brief......Page 39
3.2 Concurrent verbalisation......Page 44
3.3 Alternative data collection methods......Page 51
3.4 Coding the data......Page 53
3.5 Development of ‘TADECS’......Page 61
4 A Look at Two Designers......Page 67
4.1 An S designer’s protocol (D1 – George)......Page 68
4.2 An NS/T designer’s protocol (D12 – Colin)......Page 76
4.3 George and Colin: a salient difference......Page 81
5.1 What happens at Read brief and Analyse......Page 84
5.2 Analyse exemplified: a major difference between S and NS/T designers......Page 86
5.3 Questioning and commenting on the brief......Page 88
5.4 Reviewing the brief......Page 91
5.5 Identifying perspectives, frameworks and important considerations......Page 93
5.6 What decisions are made......Page 96
5.7 Do designers do what they say they will do?......Page 100
5.8 What designers in fact do......Page 103
5.9 The emerging picture......Page 106
6.1 Middles: the Explore macrostage......Page 107
6.2 Ends: the Instantiate, Write TN and Write WS macrostages......Page 120
7.1 A general characterisation......Page 137
7.2 Characteristics of the good task designer......Page 139
7.3 Are the experts expert? By nature or nurture?......Page 148
8.1 How expert are the experts?......Page 149
8.2 Teaching task design......Page 154
8.3 Envoy......Page 156
Appendix 1 TADECS Codes with Working Definitions and Notes......Page 157
Appendix 2 Example of ATLAS.ti Coding......Page 172
Appendix 3 Example of an Action Box Sequence......Page 173
Appendix 4 Decisions Made by the End of Analyse......Page 175
Appendix 5 Some Designers Philosophise......Page 178
Appendix 6 The Designers’ Tasks......Page 185
Notes......Page 196
References......Page 199
Index......Page 204