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ERIC Number: EJ619940
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0142-6001
Task Complexity, Task Difficulty, and Task Production: Exploring Interactions in a Componential Framework.
Robinson, Peter
Applied Linguistics, v22 n1 p27-57 Mar 2001
Describes a framework for examining the effects of the cognitive complexity of tasks on language production and learner perceptions of task difficulty, and for motivating sequencing decisions in task-based syllabuses. Results of a study of the relationship between task complexity, difficulty and production show that increasing the cognitive complexity of a direction-giving map task significantly affects speaker-information-giver production. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Language Proficiency, Language Research, Oral Language, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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