《第二语言学习中的任务》是"当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库"(升级版)中的一本,本书理论性强,内容丰富,对任务型语言教学研究者来说是一本不可错过的好书。 【作者】:弗吉尼亚·萨穆达(Virginia Samuda),兰卡斯特大学教授,任务型语言教学研究方面的知名学者。马丁·拜盖特(Martin Bygate),兰卡斯特大学名誉教授,主要研究方向为任务型语言教学。 【内容】:《第二语言学习中的任务》从哲学基础和方法论的角度,根据大量理论研究和实证研究的结果,探讨了任务的本质、任务的理据、任务在语言学习中的作用和价值以及任务在第二语言教学中的应用,对任务型语言教学研究者具有重要的参考价值,对任务型语言教学研究具有积极的推动作用。 【目录】:Contents Acknowledgements xvi Introduction 1 Part 1 Background 1. Language Use, Holistic Activity and Second Language Learning 7 2. Holistic Tasks in an Educational Context:Some Key Issues 18 3. Holistic Tasks in a Research Context:Some Key Issues 37 4. Tasks in Second Language Pedagogy 51 5. Defining Pedagogic Tasks: Issues and Challenges 62 6. Engaging Learning Processes: Implications for the Use of Second Language Tasks 71 7. Researching Second Language Pedagogic Tasks 82 Part 2 Interactions between Research and Practice 8. Task Research from a Pedagogical Perspective 133 9. Pedagogic Perspectives on Second Language Tasks 192 Part 3 Exploring Tasks 10. Research Directions 233 Part 4 Resources 11. Further Resources 267 References 277 Name Index 291 Subject Index 295 Metaphor and language teaching 134 Metaphor analysis 135 Metaphor and target language differentiation 136 The explanatory power of metaphor and analogy 136 Using metaphor to learn second language lexis and grammar 138 Figure-ground conceptual operations, force dynamics and action chains 142 Perspectives and situatedness 147 Deixis 150 Constitution/gestalt 152 Geometry 155 Conclusions 157 Part III Meaning and Usage 7 Teaching Encyclopaedic Meaning 161 Introduction 161 Word networks: hyponymy and schematicity 163 Word networks: meronymy 165 Crossing category borders 167 Knowledge types and encyclopaedic meaning 168 Finding the frame 169 Phonological sense relations 171 Conclusions 174 8 Usage and Grammatical Meaning 177 Introduction 177 Constructions 178 Type and token 179 Usage 181 Language learning as construction learning 183 Recognising constructions 183 Teaching constructions 184 Teaching filled constructions: idioms 185 Teaching partially filled constructions: lexis, meaning and conceptualization 186 Teaching partially filled constructions: bound morphemes, inflections and lexis 187 Teaching partially filled constructions: bound morphemes 188 Teaching partially filled constructions: lexis and morphemes 192 Teaching partially filled constructions: lexis 197 Teaching unfilled constructions 201 Routines for more advanced students: lexis, meaning and conceptualization 205 Encountering constructions 205 Finding useful forms 206 Conclusions 212 Part IV Conclusions 9 Towards a Cognitive Linguistics Syllabus 217 Introduction 217 Product and process 217 Language teaching implications 218 Re-embedding linguistic form in the imagery and movement from which it emerged 219 Engage the learners in the explicit analysis of form and meaning 220 A forum for usage 226 Sequencing 227 Bibliography 231 Index 244