Task-Based Language Teaching Bibliography

Baker, D.  (1989).  Language Testing: A Critical Survey and Practical Guide.  London: Edward Arnold.

Brown, J, Hudson, T., Norris, J.  Bonk, W.  (2002).  An Investigation of Second Language Task-Based Performance Assessments.  Hawaii:  Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center.

Bygate M. P. Skehan and M. Swain (2001). Researching Pedagogic Tasks: Second language learning, teaching and testing.  Pearson ESL. 

Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline.  (2001).  Task-Based Assessments: Characteristics and Validity Evidence.  Researching Pedagogic Tasks: Second Language Learning, Teaching, and Testing.  Britain: Pearson Education.  210.

Doughty, C., & Pica, T. (1986). "Information gap tasks": Do they facilitate second language acquisition? TESOL Quarterly, 20(2), 305.

Edwards, C. and J. Willis (eds) 2005. Teachers Exploring Tasks in ELT. Palgrave 

MacMillan.   

Ellis, Rod.  (2003).  Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press. 

Foster, P & Skehan, P.  (1996).  The Influence of Planning and Task Type on Second Language Performance.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 18, 299-323.

Leaver B.L. & J. Willis, (eds) 2004. Task-based Instruction in Foreign 

Language Education: practices and programs. Washington DC, Georgetown University Press.

Long, M.  & Crookes, G.  (1992). Three approaches to task-based syllabus design.  TESOL Quarterly, 26, 27-56.

Long, M.  & Crookes, G.  (1993). Units of Analysis in Syllabus Design: The Case for Task.   Tasks in a Pedagogical Context.  9.

Long, M., & Norris, J. (2000). Task-based Teaching and Assessment. In Byram, M (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning (pp. 597-603). London:
Routledge.

McDowell, J., James, P., Rich, P.  (1984).  Basic Information:  A Task-Based Approach to Developing Reading Skills at the Elementary Level.  Great Britain:  Edward Arnold.

Nunan, David.  (1989).  Design Tasks for the Communicative Classroom. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Nunan, David.  (1999).  Second Language Teaching & Learning.  Boston:  Heinle & Heinle.

Nunan, David.  (2004).  Task-Based Language Teaching.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Pica, T., Kang, H.-S., & Sauro, S. (2006). Information gap tasks: Their multiple roles and contributions to interaction research methodology. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28, 301-338.

Prabhu, N.S.  (1987).  Second Language Pedagogy.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

Robinson, P. & Ross, S.  (1996).  The Development of Task-Based Assessment in English for Academic Purposes Programs.  Applied Linguistics, 17 (4), 455-476.

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: Cambridge University.

Skehan, Peter.  (1996).  A Framework for the Implementation of Task-Based Instruction.  Applied Linguistics, 17 (1) 38-62.

Skehan, Peter.  (1996).  Second Language Acquisition Research and Task-Based Instruction.  Challenge and Change in Language Teaching.  Oxford: Macmillan. 17-30.

Skehan, P.  (1998)  Task-Based Instruction.  Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 18, 268-286.

Skehan, P.  (2001).  Tasks and Language Performance Assessment.  Researching Pedagogic Tasks: Second Language Learning, Teaching, and Testing.  Britain: Pearson Education.  167

Van Avermaet, P. & Gysen, S.  (2006).  From Needs to Tasks: Language learning needs in a task-based approach.  In Kris Van den Branden (Ed.), Task-Based Language Education: From Theory to Practice (pp. 17-46).  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Van den Branden, Kris.  (2006).  Task-Based Language Education: From Theory to Practice Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Wigglesworth, Gillian.  (2001).  Influences on Performance in Task-Based Oral Assessments. Researching Pedagogic Tasks: Second Language Learning, Teaching, and Testing.  Britain: Pearson Education.  186.

Willis D. 2003. Rules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English 

Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press. 

Willis, D. & Willis, J.  (2007).  Doing Task-based Teaching.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

Willis, J. (1996). A Framework for Task-Based Learning. Harlow, U.K. Longman 

Addison- Wesley.