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Teachers Exploring

Tasks in English

Language Teaching

Edited by

Corony Edwards and

Jane Willis

Teachers Exploring Tasks in English

Language Teaching

Prepublication praise for Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language

Teaching

‘Jane Willis’ and Corony Edwards’ edited collection of papers, Teachers

Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching , offers an excellent “making

public” of the variety of ways in which teachers use tasks to better

understand their teaching and their students’ learning. The range of

reports – focusing on students, on content, and on classroom commu-

nities in a variety of geographical and educational settings – is impres-

sive. In adopting task-based teaching, as Willis and Edwards define it,

the contributors to this collection write about their classroom practices

from a common point of view, creating in a sense a shared “grammar”

of the classroom. This approach then makes their accounts both very

readable and, I would think, highly replicable by readers. Clearly, class-

room teaching generally, and ELT teaching in particular, is coming of

age as teachers explore what and how their students learn, and articu-

late the understandings that result from their explorations, as they do

in this volume.’—Donald Freeman, Dean Language Teacher Education,

School for International Training, USA

‘ESL teachers in the United States and other English-speaking countries

can make effective use of every chapter in the book’—Betty Lou Leaver,

Dean, New York Institute of Technology in Amman, Jordan

‘High quality, extremely readable and accessible … I anticipate that this

volume will be extremely popular with classroom teachers. I found it

refreshing, and even exciting, to read accounts of professional practice

by people who have not hitherto been widely published. The volume

will be useful not only on MA courses but also on a wide range of in-

service courses … an exciting and innovative project.’—Professor David

Nunan, The English Centre, Hong Kong

‘Classroom teaching and learning ordinarily center on specific language

tasks. Instruction becomes more effective when teachers understand the

role of language tasks, recognize their students’ needs, and apply both

types of information in a sound, creative way. With better task-based

instruction as a goal, current and future teachers will benefit from the

enlightening explorations in this book. In addition, researchers will find

that this book can inform and enrich many classroom investigations.’

—Professor Rebecca Oxford, University of Maryland, USA

Teachers Exploring

Tasks in English

Language Teaching

Edited by

Corony Edwards

Senior Lecturer in Applied English Linguistics, Centre for English language

Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

and

Jane Willis

Honorary Visiting Fellow, Department of Languages and European Studies,

Aston University, UK

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