Processing Perspectives on Task Performance
Edited by Peter Skehan
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 5] 2014. xii, 266 pp.
Peter Skehan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Skehan plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Articles
2024 Foreword: Individual differences bridge the divides between task-based research and pedagogy Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching, Li, Shaofeng (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Miscellaneous
2022 Chapter 11. Performance on second language speaking tasks: Supports and impediments Second Language Acquisition Theory: The legacy of Professor Michael H. Long, Benati, Alessandro G. and John W. Schwieter (eds.), pp. 211–234 | Chapter
This chapter will discuss research into the effects of task characteristics and task conditions on second language performance. It explores a range of task characteristics, such as information structure and familiarity, as well as the operations upon such information. It will also consider the… read more
2016 Foreign language aptitude, acquisitional sequences, and psycholinguistic processes Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition, Granena, Gisela, Daniel O. Jackson and Yucel Yilmaz (eds.), pp. 17–40 | Chapter
This chapter has two broad aims: to relate aptitude tests and recent aptitude research, including that reported in this volume, to proposed second language acquisition stages; and to relate aptitude testing to the contrasts between domain-generality and domain-specificity, on the one hand, and… read more
2016 Sidesteps towards applied linguistics: In Search of a Career Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist: The life histories of some applied linguists, Ellis, Rod (ed.), pp. 89–118 | Article
2015 Limited Attention Capacity and Cognition: Two hypotheses regarding second language performance on tasks Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT: A decade of plenaries from the international conference, Bygate, Martin (ed.), pp. 123–156 | Article
The chapter is part of a Point-Counterpoint (with Robinson, this volume), exploring the Limited Attention Capacity (LAC) and Cognition Hypotheses (CH) as alternative accounts of second language task performance. It starts by presenting five principles which underlie the LAC, covering memory and… read more
2014 Chapter 4. Self-reported planning behaviour and second language performance in narrative retelling Processing Perspectives on Task Performance, Skehan, Peter (ed.), pp. 95–128 | Article
The second language planning literature has been mainly quantitative in nature, with very few qualitative investigations of planning (but see Ortega 2005). This chapter tries to redress that imbalance and reports on a study of what second language learners say they do when they plan. Participants… read more
2014 Chapter 8. Limited attentional capacity, second language performance, and task-based pedagogy Processing Perspectives on Task Performance, Skehan, Peter (ed.), pp. 211–260 | Article
2014 Chapter 1. The context for researching a processing perspective on task performance Processing Perspectives on Task Performance, Skehan, Peter (ed.), pp. 1–26 | Article
2014 Chapter 7. Structure and processing condition in video-based narrative retelling Processing Perspectives on Task Performance, Skehan, Peter (ed.), pp. 187–210 | Article
This chapter reports on a study of video-based narrative retellings, in which the major variables are degree of structure and the nature of the processing conditions under which the retellings were done. The two variables were manipulated in a 4 × 4 design. Four Mr. Bean video clips were used, with… read more
2014 Chapter 6. Structure, lexis, and time perspective: Influences on task performance Processing Perspectives on Task Performance, Skehan, Peter (ed.), pp. 155–186 | Article
The Cognition and Tradeoff Hypotheses account for task performance in different ways. The former sees task complexity as the driver for higher accuracy and structural complexity whereas the latter, within the constraints of limited attentional capacities, sees performance as being accounted for… read more
2012 Complexity, accuracy, fluency and lexis in task-based performance: A synthesis of the Ealing research Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency: Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA, Housen, Alex, Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder (eds.), pp. 199–220 | Article
This chapter will present a research synthesis of a series of studies, termed here the Ealing research. The studies use the same general framework to conceptualise tasks and task performance, enabling easier comparability. The different studies, although each is self-contained, build into a wider… read more
2009 Chapter 13. The influence of planning and task type on second language performance Task-Based Language Teaching: A reader, Van den Branden, Kris, Martin Bygate and John M. Norris (eds.), pp. 275–300 | Article
This study focuses on the impact of different variables on the nature of language performance in the context of task-based instruction. Characteristics of tasks are discussed, and then a framework is offered that can organize the nature of task-based instruction and relevant research. The framework… read more
2009 Chapter 5. A framework for the implementation of task-based instruction Task-Based Language Teaching: A reader, Van den Branden, Kris, Martin Bygate and John M. Norris (eds.), pp. 83–108 | Article
This paper examines recent proposals for task-based approaches to instruction. It reviews relevant research, before going on to examine a number of potential problems with task-based teaching, such as a potential focus away from form and towards lexis. It reviews recent developments in cognitive… read more
2005 7. Strategic and on-line planning: The influence of surprise information and task time on second language performance Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language, Ellis, Rod (ed.), pp. 193–216 | Chapter
2005 9. Strategic planning, task structure and performance testing Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language, Ellis, Rod (ed.), pp. 239–273 | Chapter
2002 4. Theorising and updating aptitude Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning, Robinson, Peter (ed.), pp. 69–93 | Article