About the Contributors
 List of Abbreviations
 Acknowledgements
 Introduction: Aims and Explorations into Tasks and Task-based Teaching
 1 Task-based Language Learning and Teaching: Theories and Applications, Ali Shehadeh
 Part A Implementing Task-based Learning:Contexts and Purposes
  2 Developing from PPP to TBL: A Focused Grammar Task, Lamprini Loumpourdi
  3 Integrating Task-based Learning into a Business English Programme, Patricia Pullin Stark
  4 Language as Topic: Learner-Teacher Investigation of Concordances, Raymond Sheehan
  5 Storytelling with Low-level Learners: Developing Narrative Tasks, Patrick Kiernan
  6 Adding Tasks to Textbooks for Beginner Learners, Theron Muller
  7 Using Language-focused Learning Journals on a Task-based Course, Jason Moser
 Part B Exploring Task Interaction: Helping Learners Do Better
  8 Exam-oriented Tasks: Transcripts, Turn-taking and Backchannelling, Maria Leedham
  9 Training Young Learners in Meaning Negotiation Skills:Does It Help?,Seung-Min Lee
  10 Task Repetition with 10-year-old Children, Annamaria Pinter
  11 Collaborative Tasks for Cross-cultural Communication, David Coulson
 Part C Exploring Task Language: Lexical Phrases and Patterns
  12 Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks, James Hobbs
  13 Multi-word Chunks in Oral Tasks, Maggie Baigent
  14 Can We Predict Language Items for Open Tasks?, David Cox
 Part D Investigating Variables: Task Conditions and Task Types
  15 Fighting Fossilization: Language at the Task Versus Report Stages, Craig Johnston
  16 Storytelling: Effects of Planning, Repetition and Context, William Essig
  17 The Effect of Pre-task Planning Time on Task-based Performance, Antigone Djapoura
  18 Balancing Fluency, Accuracy and Complexity Through Task Characteristics, Gregory Birch
  19 Quality Interaction and Types of Negotiation in Problem-solving and Jigsaw Tasks, Glen Poupore,
  Epilogue: Teachers Exploring Research, Corony Edwards
 References
 Index About the Contributors