Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Applied Linguistics
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-CAn11E.01
- Title
- Task-based Learning
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of this seminar is to familiarize students with task based language learning (TBLL) and to enable them to design and conduct research in this area.
- Course content
- After an introduction to the theory of TBLL, research articles will be employed to present the different task types used in task-based research. Besides discussing the measures generally applied for the analysis of task-based performance, findings of the studies will be analysed, as well. After reviewing a range of articles, students will be required to design, conduct, and write up a mini research project.
- Assessment method
- Assessment is based on attendance, participation, reading and presenting articles, conducting and presenting a mini research project, and writing it up as a seminar paper.
- Bibliography
- Ellis, R. (2009). The differential effects of three types of task planning on the fluency, complexity, and accuracy in L2 oral production. Applied Linguistics, 30, 474-509. Kormos, J. (2011). Speech Production and the Cognition Hypothesis. In P. Robinson (Ed.), Second language task complexity: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance, (pp. 39-60), Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins. Norris, J. M., & Ortega, L. (2009). Towards an organic approach to investigating CAF in instructed SLA: The case of complexity. Applied Linguistics, 30, 555-578. Robinson, P. (2001). Task complexity, cognitive resources, and syllabus design: A triadic framework for examining task influences on SLA. In Robinson, P. (Ed.), Cognition and second language instruction (pp. 287-318). Cambridge: CUP. Samuda, V., & Bygate, M. (2008). Tasks in second language learning, Chapter 7: Researching second language pedagogic tasks (pp. 82-127). Hampshire, Great Britain: Palgrave MacMillan. Skehan, P. (1996). A framework for the implementation of task based instruction. Applied Linguistics, 17, 38-62. Skehan, P. (2009). Modelling second language performance: Integrating complexity, accuracy, fluency, and lexis. Applied Linguistics, 30, 510-532.