Referent Similarity and Nominal Syntax in Task-Based Language Teaching

Craig Lambert is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.  He has taught in post-graduate TESOL programs at Anaheim University in the United States and at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, and has more than 20 years of hands-on teaching experience in Japan, where he worked as an English teacher, course coordinator and teacher trainer.  His research on second language speech processing, syntactic development, task-based learning and learner engagement has been published internationally.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. L2 Performance and Incidental SLA.- Chapter 3. Referential Communication and L2 Production.- Chapter 4. Tasks in L2 Syllabus Design.- Chapter 5. Referent Similarity.- Chapter 6. Referent Similarity and L2 Production.- Chapter 7. Methods.- Chapter 8. Results.- Chapter 9. Referent Similarity and TBLT.- References.- Appendix 1. Materials for the Study.- Appendix 2. Noun Phrase Coding Manual.- Appendix 3. Full Descriptive Statistics for NP Complexity.