Read up on pedagogic task design

For this session the required reading is as follows. Mike Long’s chapter gives a broad overview of syllabus design options before going into the relationship between target tasks, target task types and pedagogic tasks. The Pica et al. chapter provides a typology of oral interactive tasks that is referred to in the presentation, while the González-Lloret chapter takes a practical look at task design mediated by technology.

Additional reading

For those working with younger learners, we recommend taking a look at the following:

• Gorp, K. V., & Bogaert, N. (2006). Developing language tasks for primary and secondary education. In K. van den Branden (Ed.), Task-Based Language Education (pp. 76–105). Cambridge University Press.