Abstract:
Supported by the Higher Education Restructuring Fund allocated to ELTE by the Hungarian Government.
A seminar course for MA students
Week 1.1 - Introduction
Week 1.2 - The role of instruction in SLA
Week 2.1 – Theory of TBLT
Week 2.2 – Narrative tasks, conducting research with the help of narrative tasks
Week 3.1 – Task types
Week 3.2 – Defining tasks, spot the differences tasks
Week 4.1 – Effects of planning
Week 4.2 – Decision making tasks, introducing communication tasks
Week 5.1 – CAF: syntactic complexity
Week 5.2 – Calculating syntactic compexity, segmenting language data
Week 6.1 – CAF: lexical diversity, fluency
Week 6.2 - Calculating lexical complexity, measuring accuracy and fluency
Week 7.1 – Overview of research on tasks 1.
Week 8.1 – Overview of research on tasks 2.
Week 9.1 – Overview of research on tasks 3.
Week 10.1 – Speech production and TBLT