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Let’s Talk About Teaching Foreign Language – Part Two

August 3, 2015

Stephen Tschudi

Tasks in Language Teaching: What We Ask Students to Do

Part Two: Tasks in Language Teaching: What We Ask Students to Do from Keith Snodgrass on Vimeo.

Stephen Tschudi discusses: language use in real life; learning concepts of closed-endedness and open-endedness; relating proficiency level to actual language use; the characteristics of language tasks and how they differ from exercises; some possible classroom task configurations; rubrics for performance assessment.