This case study aims to explore the best practice of applying task-based language teaching (TBLT) via the web conferencing tool Blackboard Collaborate in a beginners’ online Chinese course by evaluating the technical capacity of the software and the pedagogical values and limitations of the tasks designed. In this paper, Chapelle’s (2001) criteria for CALL task appropriateness are adopted and a...

Abstract Task-based language teaching has received increased attention in second language research. However, the combination of structured input-based approach and task-based language teaching has not been examined in relation to L2 grammar learning. To address this gap, the present study investigated how the structured input-based tasks with and without explicit information impacted learners’ ...

Abstract Task-based language teaching has received increased attention in second language research. However, the combination of structured input-based approach and task-based language teaching has not been examined in relation to L2 grammar learning. To address this gap, the present study investigated how the structured input-based tasks with and without explicit information impacted learners’ ...

This article describes an initiative launched at a Canadian bilingual university in order to encourage L2 French and English learners take ‘linguistic risks’: authentic, autonomous communicative acts where are pushed out of their linguistic comfort zone. The was operationalized through the development Linguistic Risk-Taking Passport, which contains 74 risks that students can across campus every...

Advances in educational technology offer many opportunities the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classroom: development of students’ motivation and autonomy; integration evolution Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) with emergence different types online learning tasks; or concern Perceptual Learning Styles multimodal environments. This study investigates new generations’ perceptual preferenc...