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This study investigated the relationship between task-based teacher training and novice English language teachers’ cognitions and implementations of tasks in Honduran bilingual schools. After participating in a four-week training program on task-based language teaching, teachers with little or no prior teaching experience designed task-based lessons and were video-recorded implementing those lessons with English language learners ages 5 to 12. Following the classroom observation, teachers participated in a stimulated recall interview. A rubric aligned with 10 key principles of task-based language teaching (TBLT) as outlined by Long (2015) was used to rate teachers’ performance and code stimulated recalls. Ratings of video observations showed varied success in TBLT implementation after training, with some teachers’ lessons clearly...

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As the central construct in task-based language teaching (TBLT), “task” has been defined in a myriad of ways. Though popular criterion-based definitions offer a tantalizingly straightforward description of the construct, they have, at times, proved difficult to apply in practitioner contexts. With over 17 definitions identified in the literature, prominent scholars have advocated for efforts that offer a more unified understanding of “task” that may be better able to support task-based language teaching in implementation initiatives. This exploratory, qualitative study examines how two cohorts of K–16 U.S.-based world language teachers (n = 35) approached task design in a task-based teacher education program from a materials development perspective. An analysis of the 114 activities teachers created revealed that although submissions...

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Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is an empirically investigated pedagogy that has garnered attention from language programs across the globe. TBLT provides an alternative to traditional grammar translation or present-practice-produce pedagogies by emphasizing interaction during authentic tasks. Despite several previous meta-analyses investigating the effect of individual tasks or short-term task-based treatments on second language (L2) development, no studies to date have synthesized the effects of long-term implementation of TBLT in authentic language classrooms. The present study uses meta-analytic techniques to investigate the effectiveness of TBLT programs on L2 learning. Findings based on a sample of 52 studies revealed an overall positive and strong effect (d = 0.93) for TBLT implementation on a variety of learning outcomes....

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