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TBLT Perspectives on Teaching from an EFL Textbook at a Vietnam University ...
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This study investigated the relationship between the affordances for task-based teaching in a textbook and teachers’ awareness of and uptake of these affordances. Specifically, it compared and evaluated the communicativeness and task-likeness of activities in the textbook, New Cutting Edge, Elementary (Cunningham & Moore, 2005) and then contrasted these findings with classroom observation data on the way the activities were implemented by three Vietnamese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers at a Vietnamese university. Interviews with the teachers provided further data on their implementation decisions. The analysis and evaluation of the textbook activities and how they were implemented adopted two coding frameworks, one for evaluating communicativeness (Littlewood, 2004) and the other for evaluating task-likeness (Ellis, 2018). The analysis of communicativeness revealed that while the textbook has a high proportion of activities with low communicative value, the task analysis showed that many of ...
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FOS Languages and literature; Linguistics
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.25455/wgtn.16592426 https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/journal_contribution/TBLT_Perspectives_on_Teaching_from_an_EFL_Textbook_at_a_Vietnam_University/16592426
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In: Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics; Vol. 24 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Insight, Instruction, and Outcomes: Reflections from the TBLT 2019 conference; 99-126 ; Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée; Vol. 24 No. 2 (2021): Numéro spécial : Perspectives, enseignement et résultats : réflexions de la conférence de 2019 sur l'ELBT; 99-126 ; 1920-1818 ; 1481-868X (2021)
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