Communicative language teaching (CLT) and task-based language teaching (TBLT) have
been widely adopted in the Asia-Pacific region, with a number of Asian countries strongly …

As educators and governments in East Asia aim to increase the number of people in their
population who can communicate effectively in English, national policies and syllabuses …

Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but
problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all learners and in all …

In the past 10 to 15 years, researchers have begun to explore the possibility of synthesizing
research on task-based language teaching (TBLT) and computer-assisted language …

Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics provide comprehensive overviews of the key
topics in applied linguistics. All entries for the handbooks are specially commissioned and …

The focus of this article is on English language policy in Thailand and education policy in
particular as the most obvious manifestation of official overt language policy. As such …

Although many studies have described the L2 learning opportunities created by individual
tasks, considerably less research has investigated task‐based syllabi and courses (Bruton …

Innovation in English language education (ELE) has become a major 'growth area'in recent
years. At the same time, an ELE innovation management literature has also developed …

In this paper, task‐based language teaching (TBLT) and its relationship to task‐based
learning is investigated by drawing on teachers' pedagogic principles and practices as they …

As task-based language teaching focuses on real word tasks and the learners need to
complete these tasks in the process of learning a foreign or second language, it helps target …