3rd Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching  
Tasks: context, purpose and use’3rd Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching 13-16 September 2009. Under the auspices of the International TBLT Consortium and the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University... Read more >>
Transfer Of Learning Traced To Areas Of The Brain  
Practice makes perfect, but a question that still remains a mystery is why it is so difficult to transfer learning from a trained to an untrained task? Why are we no better at remembering faces when we have been training our memory for words? ... Read more >>
June issue of Countdown  
The Progression grid is designed to help support teachers’ assessment judgements, based on evidence from the tasks and also on what pupils do in the classroom. It was originally developed to aid task development, but its usefulness as a tool providing support both for judgements teachers might make with pupils and for planning
future teaching and learning soon became apparent(PDF)... Read more
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