Designing language teaching tasks /
Keith Johnson
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2003
- x, 196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why Study Task Design? -- Some Studies in Expertise -- Studying Task Designers at Work -- A Look at Two Designers -- Designing Language Teaching Tasks: Beginnings -- Designing Language Teaching Tasks: Middles and Ends -- The Good Task Designer: Some Hypotheses -- Evaluating and Teaching Task Design.
Designing Language Teaching Tasks provides a research-based account of how experienced teachers and task designers prepare activities for use in the language classroom. It gives detailed information on the procedures which designers follow. The book is a description of research and will therefore interest applied linguists and students in the field.