Task-Based Language Learning – Insights from and for L2 Writing

1. List of contributors; 2. Series editors' preface to volume 7; 3. Task-based language learning: Insights from and for L2 writing - an introduction (by Byrnes, Heidi); 4. PART I. Tenets, methods, and findings in task-oriented theory and research: The case of writing; 5. The internal dimension of tasks: The interaction between task factors and learner factors in bringing about learning through writing (by Manchon, Rosa M.); 6. Reframing task performance: The relationship between tasks, strategic behaviour, and linguistic knowledge in writing (by Macaro, Ernesto); 7. Theorizing language development at the intersection of 'task' and L2 writing: Reconsidering complexity (by Byrnes, Heidi); 8. PART II. Empirical findings; 9. Task repetition and L2 writing development: A longitudinal study from a Dynamic Systems perspective (by Nitta, Ryo); 10. Planning and production in computer-mediated communication (CMC) writing (by Adams, Rebecca); 11. Task complexity and linguistic performance in advanced college-level foreign language writing (by Ruiz-Funes, Marcela); 12. Differences across modalities of performance: An investigation of linguistic and discourse complexity in narrative tasks (by Kormos, Judit); 13. Storyline complexity and syntactic complexity in writing and speaking tasks (by Tavakoli, Parvaneh); 14. Linking task and writing for language development: Evidence from a genre-based curricular approach (by Byrnes, Heidi); 15. PART III. Coda; 16. Task, task performance, and writing development: Advancing the constructs and the research agenda (by Byrnes, Heidi); 17. About the contributors; 18. Author index; 19. Subject index