Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom provides a balanced
introduction to both the theoretical and practical aspects of
communicative task design, and is aimed at all second and foreign
language teachers who want to develop their own tasks, or adopt/adapt
those of others. The major purpose is to integrate recent research and
practice in language teaching into a framework for analysing learning
tasks. This framework should help teachers select, adapt or create their
own communicative tasks. The ideas presented are relevant to teachers
working in or preparing for a range of teaching situations with a
variety of learner types.