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Direct linkVandommele, Goedele; Van Gorp, Koen; Van den Branden, Kris; De Maeyer, Sven – Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study investigates the differential effects of a task-based inside-school intervention and an outside-school project intervention on the development of speaking skills of 56 beginner second language (L2)-learners. The study extends previous research by looking at development across multiple occasions instead of two (i.e., a pretest and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Indo European Languages, Intervention
Mulder, Kimberley; Hulstijn, Jan H. – Applied Linguistics, 2011
This study assessed, in a sample of 98 adult native speakers of Dutch, how their lexical skills and their speaking proficiency varied as a function of their age and level of education and profession (EP). Participants, categorized in terms of their age (18-35, 36-50, and 51-76 years old) and the level of their EP (low versus high), were tested on…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Vocabulary Development, Native Speakers, Language Skills
Peer reviewedSkehan, Peter – Applied Linguistics, 1996
Examines proposals for task-based approaches to instruction, reviews relevant research, investigates developments in cognitive psychology, proposes a framework for the implementation of task-based instruction drawing upon relevant theory, and organizes the methods to implement such instruction so as to minimize problems and maximize goal…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cognitive Psychology, Course Content, Goal Orientation
