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“Now I hear what you say” - how short EAP courses can foster successful academic interactional strategies
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The engagement of BAAL - and applied linguistics - with policy and practice
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HIV/AIDS antenatal consultations as regulative discourse : the case of Malawi
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Language Evolution and the Nature of the Human Faculty for Language
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Using psycholinguistic techniques in a second language teaching setting
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Contextualisation and authenticity in TBLT: voices from Chinese classrooms
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In view of ongoing debates about the future of TBLT in EFL contexts (Thomas & Reinders, 2015; Zheng & Borg, 2014), we present a detailed case study of teacher beliefs and practices regarding TBLT conducted in a secondary school in mainland China with a long history of communicative and task-based teaching approaches. We used a mixed-methods approach to gather a broad range of triangulated data, combining individual interviews, material analysis and observations coded using a novel task-focused version of the COLT scheme (Littlewood, 2011; Spada & Fröhlich, 1995). Quantitative and qualitative findings revealed positive beliefs about TBLT principles in general, reflecting strong institutional support for communicative teaching. However, there was marked variability between beliefs and practices in using tasks, especially with beginner-level learners. Most teachers demonstrated an intrinsic lack of confidence in using tasks as more than a communicative ‘add-on’ to standard form-focused teaching. We argue this demonstrates a need for building teacher autonomy (Aoki, 2002; Benson, 2007), in implementing TBLT, even in supportive settings, to support successful authentic contextualising TBLT principles in different EFL contexts.
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URL: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/58200/ https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/58200/1/Chen%20and%20Wright%20Author%20version%202015.pdf
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Examining the effects of study abroad on L2 Chinese development among UK university learners
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Wright, Clare; Cong, Z.. - : Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, 2014
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