The task is not enough: Processing approaches to task-based performance

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 170-187

  Skehan, Peter ^a   Xiaoyue, Bei ^b   Qian, Li ^c   Wang, Zhan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b HANG SENG MANAGEMENT COLLEGE   (Hong Kong)

^c GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (China)

^d THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

accuracy; complexity; fluency; language learning task; planning; repetition; task conditions; task performance; TBLT (task based language teaching)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864040776     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168811428414     Document Type: Article

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