About the Contributo List of Abbreviatio Acknowledgements Introduction: Aims and Exploratio into Tasks and Task-based Teaching 1 Task-based Language Learning and Teaching: Theories and Applicatio Ali Shehadeh Part A Implementing Task-based Learning:Contexts and Purposes 2 Developing from PPP to TBL: A Focused Grammar Task Lamprini Loumpourdi 3 Integrating Task-based Learning into a Business English Programme Patricia Pullin Stark 4 Language as Topic: Learner-Teacher Investigation of Concordances Raymond Sheehan 5 Storytelling with Low-level Learne: Developing Narrative Tasks Patrick Kiernan 6 Adding Tasks to Textbooks for Beginner Learne Theron Muller 7 Using Language-focused Learning Journals on a Task-based Coue Jason Moser Part B Exploring Task Interaction: Helping Learne Do Better 8 Exam-oriented Tasks: Tracripts, Turn-taking and Backchannelling Maria Leedham 9 Training Young Learne in Meaning Negotiation Skills:Does It Help? Seung-Min Lee 10 Task Repetition with 10-year-old Children Annamaria Pinter 11 Collaborative Tasks for Cross-cultural Communication David Coulson Part C Exploring Task Language: Lexical Phrases and Patter 12 Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks James Hobbs 13 Multi-word Chunks in Oral Tasks Maggie Baigent 14 Can We Predict Language Items for Open Tasks? David Cox Part D Investigating Variables: Task Conditio and Task Types 15 Fighting Fossilization: Language at the Task Veus Report Stages Craig Johton 16 Storytelling: Effects of Planning, Repetition and Context William Essig 17 The Effect of Pre-task Planning Time on Task-based Performance Antigone Djapoura 18 Balancing Fluency, Accuracy and Complexity Through Task Characteristics Gregory Birch 19 Quality Interaction and Types of Negotiation in Problem-solving and Jigsaw Tasks Glen Poupore Epilogue: Teache Exploring Research Corony Edwards References Index