Chapter 4
Children and task repetition
Does practice make perfect?
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.2Repetition in children’s education
- Repetitio est mater studiorum
- Deliberate practice
- Repetition and memory in childhood
- 4.3Repetition in SLA
- 4.4Task repetition in SLA
- 4.4.1Definition of task repetition
- 4.4.2The rationale of task repetition for oral and writing tasks
- The limitations of our attentional resources
- 4.4.3The rationale of task repetition for child L2 writers
- 4.5Empirical studies on task repetition
- 4.5.1Task repetition in oral tasks
- 4.5.2Task repetition in writing tasks
- 4.5.2.1Adults
- 4.5.2.2Children
- 4.6Summary