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Second language task complexity : researching the cognition hypothesis of language learning and performance /

Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that comple...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Robinson, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2011.
Colección:Task-based language teaching ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that complex tasks should promote greater accuracy and complexity of speech and writing, as well as more interaction, and learning of information provided in the input to task performance, than simpler tasks. Implications are drawn concerning the basic pedagogic claim of the Cognition Hypothesis, that tasks sh.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027290274
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9781283280563