Jane Willis

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jane Willis plays a role.

Articles

The aim of this chapter is to explore the potential of task-based language teaching to accommodate a range of learner individual differences (IDs). As such it is different from previous chapters in this volume which report research findings on separate individual differences. To supplement my… read more
Willis, Dave and Jane Willis 2015 Chapter 10. Language description and language learning: The pedagogic corpus and learners as researchersCorpora, Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Susan Hunston, Groom, Nicholas, Maggie Charles and Suganthi John (eds.), pp. 235–256 | Article
Traditional pedagogic language descriptions are grammar-based and oversimplified, ignoring important aspects of the way text is created, for example through complex collocational attraction (Sinclair 1991) or lexical priming (Hoey 2005, this volume). If a teaching methodology is to allow for the… read more
Willis, Jane 2009 Chapter 11. The TBL frameworkTask-Based Language Teaching: A reader, Van den Branden, Kris, Martin Bygate and John M. Norris (eds.), pp. 227–242 | Article
This chapter covers the second phase in the task-based learning framework – the task cycle. It describes in detail the three components of the task cycle, task, planning and report, and examines the role of the teacher in each. It emphasises the importance of writing in the learning process and… read more