Language Output, Communication Strategies, and Communicative Tasks: In the Chinese Context [Paperback]

This innovative book examines the relationship between foreign (L2) language acquisition and task-based learning from an output perspective, with a concentration on the learner's discourse and retrospection. Author Cynthia Lee explores this issue in an experimental context; with particular reference to Hong Kong Chinese tertiary learners of English. Lee's study contributes to research on L2 acquisition and casts light on task-based learning and pedagogy in Hong Kong classrooms and beyond. English language teaching practitioners, researchers, and applied linguists will find special value in this book.Cynthia Leeis Assistant Professor in the Language Centre at Hong Kong Baptist University. Lee holds a Ph.D. in Language in Education from the University of London.

Chapter 1 List of Figures
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4Chapter One: Introduction; Acquisition of L2 through Interaction in Natural and Classroom Contexts
Chapter 5 Factors Facilitating Pushed Output or Stretching in Tasks; Strategies in Interlanguage Communication and Development
Chapter 6Chapter Two: Chinese Learning Culture; A Chinese Context- Hong Kong; Task-Based Learning in Hong Kong
Chapter 7Chapter Three: Research Questions; The Study; Subjects' Profiles; Task Types and Their Nature; Coding Categories; Data Collection Techniques; Procedures; Conventions of Transcription; Categories
Chapter 8Chapter Four: Introduction; Divergent Task: Length of Turns, Variety and Complexity of Syntax, Variety of Lexis and Discourse Structure Length of Turns; Convergent Task: Length of Turns, Variety and Complexity of Syntax, Variety of Lexis and Discour
Chapter 9Chapter Five: Introduction; Relationship Between Communicative Tasks and Discourse Structures; Relationship Between Communicative Tasks and Strategy Use for L2 Acquisition; Causal Relationship Between Communicative Tasks and Strategy Use; Assisting
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