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This volume contributes to the development and advancement of TBLT as a research domain by investigating the intersection between tasks and technology from a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., educational, cognitive, sociocultural) and by gathering empirical findings on the design and implementation of diverse tasks for writing, interaction, and assessment with the mediation of technological tools such as wikis, blogs, CMC, Fanfiction sites, and virtual and synthetic environments. The innovative blend of tasks and technology in technology-mediated communication is guided by task-based language teaching and learning principles, and the contexts of study span adult college-level education settings in the United States, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Malaysia. The volume opens up a new framework that the authors call “technology-mediated TBLT,” in which tasks and technology are genuinely and productively integrated in the curriculum according to learning-by-doing philosophies of language pedagogy, new language education needs, and digital technology realities.
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Technology-mediated TBLT
Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice (TBLT) Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is an educational framework for the theory and practice of teaching second or foreign languages. The TBLT book series is devoted to the dissemination of TBLT issues and practices, and to fostering improved understanding and communication across the various clines of TBLT work. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/tblt
Editors Martin Bygate
University of Lancaster
John M. Norris
Georgetown University
Kris Van den Branden KU Leuven
Volume 6 Technology-mediated TBLT. Researching Technology and Tasks Edited by Marta González-Lloret and Lourdes Ortega
Technology-mediated TBLT Researching Technology and Tasks Edited by
Marta González-Lloret University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Lourdes Ortega Georgetown University
John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Technology-mediated TBLT : Researching Technology and Tasks / Edited by Marta González-Lloret and Lourdes Ortega. p. cm. (Task-Based Language Teaching, issn 1877-346X ; v. 6) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Language and languages--Computer-assisted instruction. 2. Language and languages--Study and teaching--Methodology. 3. Task analysis in education. I. González-Lloret, Marta, editor of compilation. II. Ortega, Lourdes, editor of compilation. P53.28.T444 2014 418.0078’5--dc23 2014010413 isbn 978 90 272 0727 2 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 0728 9 (Pb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 7019 1 (Eb)
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Table of content chapter 1 Towards technology-mediated TBLT: An introduction Marta González-Lloret & Lourdes Ortega
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chapter 2 The need for needs analysis in technology-mediated TBLT Marta González-Lloret
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chapter 3 Prior knowledge and second language task production in text chat Rebecca Adams & Nik Aloesnita Nik Mohd Alwi
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chapter 4 Textbooks, tasks, and technology: An action research study in a textbook-bound EF