Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of the present paper was to present the rationale for the Task-based Language teaching and discuss its significance within the SLA approaches to language teaching.First, different approaches to Task-based language teaching research and practice were discussed, then the notion of 'Task Complexity" has been touched upon and different models for estimating task difficulty or Task Complexity were mentioned.Attempt, then, was made to elaborate on the empirical studies within the Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson, 2003(Robinson, , 2005(Robinson, , 2007)).Finally, the implications of Task Complexity for SLA research and pedagogy were widely discussed.
Institution: Islamic Azad University, Isfahan
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2043943145