Publications

Publication details [#51718]

Branden, Kris Van den. 2009. Mediating between predetermined order and chaos: the role of the teacher in task-based language education. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 19 (3) : 264–285.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | foreign language teaching | second language acquisition | task-dependency of processing | teacher

Language as a subject

Dutch

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

Drawing on Dutch as a second language classroom acquisition research, carried out in Flanders, it is argued that both teachers and students can exploit task-based work to develop shared projects with clearly defined goals.