If the main goal of a language course is for learners to learn to use the target language more efficiently, fluently and correctly in authentic language use situations, then current scientific ...

Vol. 51, No. 3, SPECIAL TOPIC ISSUE: COMPLEMENTARY PERSPECTIVES ON TASK-BASED CLASSROOM REALITIES (SEPTEMBER 2017), pp. 507-535 (29 pages) In this study, the authors explore how classroom tasks that ...

“Too complicated”, “too much lost time” or “I don’t have any control over what my pupils are doing there” – this is how some teachers spontaneously react to the idea of using task-based language ...

I’ve always thought of language teaching as both an art and a craft. My own journey started in Morocco, where I spent nine ...

Kim McDonough is Professor in Applied Linguistics who joined the Department of Education at Concordia in 2010. Her research interests include psycholinguistic approaches to second language acquisition ...

On the list of international languages, English has always maintained its spot as one of the most important academic and professional tools. However, for most developing nations, using English as a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This empirical study investigated the occurrence of meaning negotiation in an interactive synchronous computer-mediated second language (L2) ...