Shoko Sasayama

orcid.org/0000-0002-1927-8331

List of John Benjamins publications for which Shoko Sasayama plays a role.

Journal

TASK

Edited by Kris Van den Branden and Koen Van Gorp

ISSN 2666-1748 | E-ISSN 2666-1756

Articles

Sasayama, Shoko and John M. Norris 2022 Designing speaking tasks for different assessment goals: The complex relationship between cognitive task complexity, language performance, and task accomplishment TASK 2:2, pp. 184–217 | Article

This study explored the role of cognitive task complexity in designing speaking assessment tasks. A sample of 120 English learners at different proficiency levels engaged in four narrative tasks with distinct levels/types of cognitive complexity. Performances were assessed using linguistic… read more

Sasayama, Shoko and John M. Norris 2019 Chapter 5. Unravelling cognitive task complexity: Learning from learners’ perspectives on task characteristics and second language performance Researching L2 Task Performance and Pedagogy: In honour of Peter Skehan, Wen, Zhisheng (Edward) and Mohammad Javad Ahmadian (eds.), pp. 95–132 | Chapter

Cognitive task complexity, which refers to the complexity or difficulty of a given task, has received substantial interest from researchers in various fields, including task-based language teaching (TBLT), second language acquisition, language testing, cognitive psychology, and education. In TBLT,… read more

Sasayama, Shoko and Shinichi Izumi 2012 Chapter 2. Effects of task complexity and pre-task planning on Japanese EFL learners’ oral production Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts: Research and implementation, Shehadeh, Ali and Christine A. Coombe (eds.), pp. 23–42 | Article

This study sought to test Skehan’s (1996, 1998) limited capacity hypothesis and Robinson’s (1995, 2003) cognition hypothesis by investigating the effects of task complexity and pre-task planning on EFL learners’ oral production (see also Genc, this volume). Twenty three Japanese-L1 high school… read more