In:TBLT for Young Learners: Challenges, opportunities and goals
Edited by Sima Khezrlou
[Task-Based Language Teaching 21] 2026
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Editors’ preface
Foreword
Rod Ellis
Section 1.Introduction
Chapter 1.TBLT for young learners: An introduction
Sima Khezrlou
Section 2.Cultural and contextual considerations in TBLT: Challenges and opportunities
Chapter 2.Negotiating tasks with First Nation adolescent learners
to heighten engagement and cultural appropriacy
to heighten engagement and cultural appropriacy
Rhonda Oliver
Sender Dovchin
Lissy Jackson
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
for young L2 learners: A TBNA for primary school-age students
with migration backgrounds in Austria
Vera Trager
Roger Gilabert
Chapter 4.Task-based language teaching for young learners
in challenging contexts
in challenging contexts
Natsuko Shintani
Takuro Fujita
Chapter 5.Task-based language teaching for young learners: A synthesis of literature on opportunities
Haemin Kim
Zohreh R. Eslami
Section 3.Integration of language focus into TBLT: Learning through reflection
Chapter 6.Metalinguistic explanations as a mediating force for reflection
on form by young EFL learners during a dictogloss task
on form by young EFL learners during a dictogloss task
Paloma Delgado-Garza
María del Pilar García Mayo
Chapter 7.Young learners’ metalinguistic awareness in a task-supported
EFL teaching intervention
EFL teaching intervention
Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester
Montserrat Capdevila
Eloi Puig Mayenco
Chapter 8.Effects of task repetition with implicit and explicit form-focused
instruction on Japanese young learners’ grammatical accuracy
Takashi Oba
Nami Takazawa
Chapter 9.Implicit focus on form activities for young L2 learners
in task-based classes
in task-based classes
Sima Khezrlou
Section 4.From design to assessment
Innovation and practiceChapter 10.Conducting task-based needs analysis in digital lower
secondary school contexts
secondary school contexts
Katrin Schmiderer
Elena Nuzzo
Carmen Konzett-Firth
Nicola Brocca
Ufuk Balaman
Chapter 11.Implementation of TBLT in Korean and Chinese immersion programs: A computer-mediated-communication (CMC) task for teenage,
beginning-level learners
Kevin Fedewa
Weihsuan Lo
Jing Paul
Adelia Kim
Changu Kang
Nikeese Daniel
Chapter 12.Technology-mediated TBLT in young learner education: A classroom action research study
Armanda R. Stroia
Daniel Xerri
Chapter 13.Affordances of technology-mediated TBLT
for young learners
for young learners
Nicole Ziegler
Section 5.Conclusion
Chapter 14.Conclusion
Sima Khezrlou
Index
