Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language

The LL&LT monograph series publishes monographs as well as edited volumes on applied and methodological issues in the field of language pedagogy. The focus of the series is on subjects such as classroom discourse and interaction; language diversity in educational settings; bilingual education; language testing and language assessment; teaching methods and teaching performance; learning trajectories in second language acquisition; and written language learning in educational settings.

Planning and its role in task-based performance are of both theoretical interest to second language acquisition (SLA) researchers and of practical significance to language teachers. In the case of SLA researchers, planning is important because it links in with the current interest in the role of attention in language learning.

The purpose of this book is to bring together a series of articles on the nature of planning and its effects on task-based performance in laboratory, classroom and testing contexts. The idea for the book originated in a colloquium on this topic given at AILA Conference in Singapore in December 2002. Papers given by Bygate and Samuda, Elder and Iwashita, Ellis and Fanguan, and Sanguran were subsequently developed into chapters for this book.

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