A first and critical step towards successful engagement with replication is to provide
justifications to replicate the initial study. Despite existing guidelines, many researchers are …

Providing a much-needed critical synthesis of research on teaching vocabulary and
grammar to students of a second or foreign language, this book puts the research into …

The chapter opens with a discussion of the cyclic nature of pedagogy and a brief overview of
TBLT-related publications of the last decade. It then presents a comprehensive review of …

Despite empirical evidence in support of the effectiveness of using tasks in young learners'
classrooms, task implementation has been repeatedly reported as a thorny problem. An …

Working memory (WM) is essential to vocabulary learning. However, limited attention has
been paid to young beginner learners' vocabulary development under various task …

This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts
and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks …

In many compulsory second language (L2) classrooms, learners routinely encounter
linguistically difficult L2 reading tasks. However, it is unclear (1) how learners behaviorally …

East (2014) presented a largely qualitative study that uncovered how beginning teachers of
languages other than English developed their understandings about task-based language …

In this article I argue that the “Present-Practice-Produce”(PPP) approach to second
language instruction is sometimes interpreted too rigidly and portrayed in a way that does …

There is compelling empirical evidence suggesting that more authentic learning tasks
improve second language learners' motivation and learning (Long, 1996; Van Lier, 2014) …