Second Language Task-Based Performance

Peter Skehan is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and has taught at universities in the UK, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. He is interested in second language acquisition, particularly task-based performance, language aptitude, and language testing. He is a recipient of the International Association of Task-Based Language Teaching Distinguished Achievement award.

• Chapter 1. The Road to This BookSection I. TheoryIntroduction to the sectionChapter 2. A Framework for the Implementation of Task-Based Instruction. Chapter 3. Modelling second language performance: Integrating complexity, accuracy, fluency and lexisChapter 4. Limited Attentional Capacity and Cognition: Two hypotheses regarding second language performance on tasksChapter 5. Reflections on TheorySection II. Empirical WorkIntroduction to the sectionChapter 6. The influence of planning on performance in task-based learningChapter 7. Self-reported planning behaviour and second language performance in narrative retellingChapter 8. Lexical Performance by Native and Non-native Speakers on Language-Learning TasksChapter 9. Reflections on Planning Research Chapter 10. Reflections on Empirical Research Section III. Testing and Assessment Introduction to the SectionChapter 11. Tasks and language performanceChapter 12. Models of speaking and the assessment of second language proficiencyChapter 13. Reflections on AssessmentReferencesIndex