Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT: A decade of plenaries from the international conference

Task-Based Language Teaching #8

by Martin Bygate (Editor)

This volume brings together contemporary position statements and research reviews which were originally presented as Plenary Addresses to the Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, between 2005 and 2013. It thus assembles up-to-date reflections, critiques, and recommendations from influential researchers working within the TBLT paradigm over the last 30 years, thereby also highlighting most of the major theoretical perspectives so far developed. While the plenarists structured their chapters around their original presentations, they have been invited to update their thinking as they feel appropriate and in response to recent developments in the field. The collection thus offers representative and accessible coverage of a range of approaches to the overall philosophy of TBLT, to the relationship between TBLT and the study of second language acquisition, and to the development and implementation of TBLT as a comprehensive approach to language education, curriculum, and pedagogy.

325 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 15, 2015

About the author

Martin Bygate is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. He is a graduate of the University of Leicester, where he read French. He holds an MA in Linguistics from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. from the University of London Institute of Education.

He has worked as a teacher-trainer in a number of countries including France, Morocco, Brazil, Spain, and Italy, and as a lecturer at the School of Education, University of Leeds. His main research interests are in oral second language learning, particularly the use of pedagogic tasks, the development of oral second language proficiency, dimensions of teacher talk, and classroom interaction.

From 1999 to 2004 he was co-editor of the Applied Linguistics Journal published by Oxford University Press.