Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education: Practices and Programs

PrefaceAcknowledgments Part 1: An Overview of Task-Based Instruction: From Theories to Practices 1. Perspectives on Task-Based Instruction: Understanding Our Practices, Acknowledging Different PractitionersJane R. Willis Part 2: Task-Based Instruction in Classroom Instruction 2. Task-Based Instruction in U.S. Government Slavic Language ProgramsBetty Lou Leaver and Marsha A. Kaplan 3. Using Media-Based Tasks in Teaching SpanishAlicia Mora van Altena 4. Introducing Task-Based Instruction for Teaching English in Brazil: Learning How to Leap the HurdlesJaurez Lopes 5. Learning Arabic: From Language Functions to Tasks in a Diglossic ContextMahdi Alosh 6. Designing an Outcomes-Based TBI Japanese Language ProgramYoshiko Saito-Abbott 7. Task-Based Instruction for Teaching Spanish to ProfessionalsClemencia Macias 8. Bridging the Gap between Sciences and the Humanities: French for Professional EngineersWayne Richard Hager and Mary Ann Lyman-Hager Part 3: Internet Tasks and Programs 9. Task-Based Reading Activities Developed for Online Delivery at the Defense Language InstituteNatalia Antokhim, Abdelfattah Boussalhi, Kuei-Lan Chen, Pamela Combacau, and Steve Koppany 10. Webheads Communities: Writing Tasks for English Interleaved with Synchronous Online Communications and Web Page DevelopmentVance Stevens 11. Using Web Technology to Promote Writing, Analytical Thinking, and Creative Expression in GermanFranziska Lys Part 4: Assessment and Teacher Development 12. Implementing Task-Based Assessment in a TEFL EnvironmentClaudio Passos de Oliveira 13. It's All in the Team: Approaches to Teacher Development in a Content-Based, Task-Based EFL ProgramKathryn Cozonac Appendix A: Multi-Continent Glossary of Terms Appendix B: Multi-Scale Proficiency Descriptors ReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex