Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms

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Summary: Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms
Review: This review is written by a native Spanish teacher teaching High School Spanish in New Jersey. I enjoyed reading this book because it explains in a very comprehensible way what a task is, what makes task- based teaching different and more productive than the audiolingual method in the increment of oral production in second language learners. The book mainly concentrates on tasks for oral production, on how to create tasks, and how to implement and test them. The book teaches how to change from the teacher-student: question - answer paradigm to the student-student question - answer paradigm. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know about the creation of tasks,and their implementation and tests in second language settings. The book is also good for those who need to research information for further studies on tasks because it contains a large bibliography with reference to other books related to tasks with a brief summary of their contents.