Appendix A: A selection of tasks and units of work. - Appendix B: Approaches and methods - An overview. - Appendix C: Graded activities for the four macroskills.

Cumulative Bibliography: p. 203.

1. Learning tasks and the language curriculum. -- 2. Analysing language skills. -- 3. Task components. -- 4. Roles and settings in the language class. -- 5. Grading tasks. -- 6. Sequencing and integrating tasks. -- 7. Tasks and teacher development.

This book is a balanced introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of communicative task design. It is aimed at all second and foreign language teachers and trainee teachers who want to develop their own tasks, or adopt/adapt those of others. The main aim is to integrate recent research and practice in language teaching into a framework for analysing learning tasks.