Martin East
List of John Benjamins publications for which Martin East plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2666-1748 | E-ISSN 2666-1756
Titles
Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teachers' Perspective: Insights from New Zealand
Martin East
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 3] 2012. xix, 259 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Dictionary Use in Foreign Language Writing Exams: Impact and implications
Martin East
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 22] 2008. xiii, 228 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language teaching
Articles
2024 Measuring L1 Chinese speakers’ anxiety when completing an English as L2 video narration task: Validation of task anxiety and pedagogical implications Journal of Second Language Studies 7:1, pp. 99–128 | Article
The present study investigated the nature of Chinese as First Language (L1) speakers’ anxiety when completing an oral task in English as Foreign Language (L2). Chinese second-year university students (n = 96) performed a video narration task and completed questionnaires measuring their trait… read more
2018 Chapter 1. How do beginning teachers conceptualise and enact tasks in school foreign language classrooms? TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy, Samuda, Virginia, Kris Van den Branden and Martin Bygate (eds.), pp. 23–50 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the perspectives of a cohort of pre-service secondary school teachers of foreign languages in New Zealand on the value and use of tasks in their own classrooms. As part of their course requirements, the teachers were asked to design and implement a task in their classrooms,… read more
2007 Promoting a Multilingual Future for Aotearoa/New Zealand: Initiatives for Change from 1989 to 2003 Culture, Contexts, and Communication in Multicultural Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction, Zhu, Yunxia and Herbert Hildebrandt (eds.), pp. 11–28 | Article
In the fifteen years from 1989 to 2003 considerable development has occurred in the area of international languages teaching in New Zealand’s schools. 1989 marked the beginning of serious moves to encourage the New Zealand government to develop a comprehensive national languages policy that would… read more
2004 Calculating the lexical frequency profile of written German texts Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 27:1, pp. 30–43 | Article
Measures of lexical richness aim at quantifying the degree to which L2 writers are using a varied and large vocabulary. One method for calculating lexical richness is the Lexical Frequency Profile, or LFP (Laufer & Nation, 1995). The LFP, calculated by a computer programme, provides a detailed… read more