Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching

Rod Ellis has written (yet another) agenda-setting book, this time charting a journey through key issues in task-based language teaching. This is a must-read for researchers committed to the pedagogic relevance of their work, and for language educators in search of a deeper understanding of task-based research and pedagogy.

* Jonathan Newton, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand *

This comprehensive yet personal book will be invaluable reading for very diverse audiences. Synthesizing a lifetime of engagement with language education and tasks, Rod Ellis proposes an options-based approach that can be flexibly adapted across geographies and masterfully re-examines the quandaries cognitive and social researchers investigate through the questions teachers ask.

* Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, USA *

This review has recommended Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching in particular to teacher educators and to researchers. However, classroom teachers
at whatever stage of their career will find plenty to guide them in their teaching.
Chapter 5, titled “Preparing learners to perform tasks,” is one good example. This is a book which should sell well and which will probably give fresh ideas to classroom teachers, whether or not they are also researchers.

-- Marilyn Lewis, University of Auckland, New Zealand * TESOL Theory and Praxis, Volume 4 Issue 1 *

[This book] is an honour to the work of one of the most esteemed scholars in TBLT.

-- Melissa Baralt, Florida International University, USA * ELT Journal, Volume 73, Issue 2, April 2019 *

[This book] comprehensively examines the theoretical and pedagogic aspects of task-based language teaching (TBLT), one of the long-standing topics in instructed SLA, and offers insights into TBLT as an approach to second language teaching. Ellis’ (2003) previous book, Task-based Language Learning and Teaching, focuses on research and theories underlying TBLT. The current book complements his previous work by shedding more light on pedagogic issues related to TBLT.

-- Taichi Yamashita and Long He, Iowa State University, USA * Applied Linguistics 2019: 1�