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Task Complexity, Theory of Mind, and Intentional Reasoning: Effects on L2 Speech Production, Interaction, Uptake and Perceptions of Task Difficulty
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Robinson, Peter – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
Three interactive tasks, increasing in the complexity of resource-directing reasoning demands on speaker/storyteller attribution of, and linguistic reference to, the thoughts and intentions of characters in narrative stimuli were performed by Japanese L1 speakers of English. Largely consistent with the claims of the Cognition Hypothesis, results…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Difficulty Level, Story Telling, Japanese
Task Complexity, the Cognition Hypothesis and Second Language Learning and Performance
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Robinson, Peter; Gilabert, Roger – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
In this paper we describe a taxonomy of task demands which distinguishes between Task Complexity, Task Condition and Task Difficulty. We then describe three theoretical claims and predictions of the Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson 2001, 2003b, 2005a) concerning the effects of task complexity on: (a) language production; (b) interaction and uptake…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Difficulty Level, Classification, Schemata (Cognition)
Cognitive Complexity and Task Sequencing: Studies in a Componential Framework for Second Language Task Design
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Robinson, Peter – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2005
This paper describes a framework for researching the Cognition Hypothesis which claims that pedagogic tasks be sequenced for learners on the basis of increases in their cognitive complexity. It distinguishes dimensions of complexity which increase the conceptual and linguistic demands tasks make on communication, so creating the conditions for L2…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Development
The Composition, Adaptation, and Choice of Second-Language Tests
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Robinson, Peter – English Language Teaching, 1970
Identifies different types of tests and then treats evaluation tests at some length. Emphasizes that there is no such things as a universal test, which can be used to measure the second-language competence of any group of people," and that tests are only useful for the group they were designed to measure." (FB)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation, Language Proficiency
Oral Expression Tests: [Part] 1
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Robinson, Peter – English Language Teaching, 1971
Based on a paper delivered at the Canadian Linguistics Association Congress held in Toronto, Canada, June 10-13, 1969. (DS)
Descriptors: English, Language Instruction, Language Skills, Language Tests
Oral Expression Tests: 2
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Robinson, Peter – English Language Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension
Testing the Second-Language Competence of Children and Adults
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Robinson, Peter – English Language Teaching, 1973
Based on a paper given at the Fourth Annual Conference of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, London, England, December 29, 1970 to January 2, 1971. (RS)
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Children, Contrastive Linguistics