Vera Trager

orcid.org/0000-0003-3315-1289

List of John Benjamins publications in which Vera Trager is involved.

Journal

TASK

Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning

Edited by Kris Van den Branden and Koen Van Gorp

ISSN 2666-1748 | E‑ISSN 2666‑1756

Articles (4) | Order by:

Trager, Vera 2026 Chapter 3. Task-based needs analysis: Enabling targeted task design for primary school-aged refugees From Task-based Needs Analysis to Task and Syllabus Design: Insights from across educational contexts, Gilabert, Roger and Aleksandra Malicka (eds.), pp. 43–76 | Chapter

Amidst the surge in refugee arrivals in Europe, schools face a critical challenge in facilitating the integration of young refugees, in which learning the host country’s language plays a pivotal role. In Austria, 31% of all primary school students learn German as L2 and thus a systematic… read more

Trager, Vera and Roger Gilabert 2026 Chapter 3. Methodological approaches to task-based needs analysis for young L2 learners: A TBNA for primary school-age students with migration backgrounds in Austria TBLT for Young Learners: Challenges, opportunities and goals, Khezrlou, Sima (ed.), pp. 38–61 | Chapter

This chapter explores the application of task-based needs analysis (TBNA) for young learners, focusing on Austrian migrant primary school students learning German as a second language. While traditional TBNAs rely on stakeholders for identifying tasks, this study found that adult experts… read more

Gilabert, Roger, Joan Castellví, Elisabet Comelles, Vera Trager, Gina Arnold, Aleksandra Malicka, Kerry Brennan and Natasha Moskvina 2025 A qualitative and quantitative preliminary analysis of a task design web-based tool and its applications for teacher education Teacher Education for Task-Based Language Teaching, Gutiérrez, Xavier, Lara Bryfonski and Greg Ogilvie (eds.), pp. 285–315 | Article

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been consolidated as a research-based teaching perspective over the last four decades. At its core, task and materials design have been identified as key to successful task-based implementation (Bryfonski, forthcoming). Yet teachers are often left to their… read more

Trager, Vera and Roger Gilabert 2024 A task-based needs analysis of primary school-aged children with migrant or refugee backgrounds in Austria TASK 4:2, pp. 202–240 | Article

In this study, we report on a task-based needs analysis (TBNA) for primary school-aged newcomers to Austria. 31% of Austria’s primary school students learn German as L2 and thus a systematic analysis of their language learning needs is crucial. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and a… read more