MAGGIE BAIGENT teaches at the University of Bologna
GREGORY CHARLES BIRCH teaches at Seisen Women's College
DAVID COULSON teaches at the British and American Studies Department, Niigata Women's College, in north-west Japan
DAVID COX is working on the opportunities offered by Webcam technology for language tuition
ANTIGONE DJAPOURA works in a Private Language Institute in Cyprus
WILLIAM ESSIG teaches in a Japanese university in Osaka
JAMES HOBBS teaches at Iwate Medical University
CRAIG JOHNSTON teaches at Kansai Gaidai College in Osaka, Japan
PATRICK KIERNAN teaches at Tokyo Denki University, Japan
SEUNG-MIN LEE (STEVE) teaches at the Korea National University of Education
MARIA LEEDHAM is a teacher and teacher trainer at both Oxford University and Aston University, Birmingham
LAMPRINI LOUMPOURDI (LANA) works at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
JASON MOSER works at a number of universities in Japan, including Osaka University
THERON MULLER works in Japan
ANNAMARIA PINTER works at the Centre for English Language Teacher Education (CELTE)
GLEN POUPORE works in the Department of English, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea and also for the Konkuk-Illinois Joint TESOL Certification Program, in Seoul
PATRICIA PULLIN-STARK works for Fribourg University in Switzerland
RAYMOND SHEEHAN teaches at Higher Colleges of technology in the United Arab Emirates
ALI SHEHADEH teaches at the College of Languages and translation, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Iris Murdoch is the subject of increasing academic and general interest, especially after the well-received biographies by Bayley, Conradi and Wilson and also the film Iris starring Judi Dench

Accessible record of key aspects of twentieth-century political and intellectual life, as well as an invaluable resource for Murdoch scholars

Includes detailed Who's Who and Bibliography to increase value as a reference tool

About the Contributors List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION; Aims and Explorations into Tasks and Task-based Teaching; J.Willis Task-based Language Learning and Teaching: Theories and Applications; A.Shehadeh PART 1: IMPLEMENTING TASK-BASED LEARNING: CONTEXTS AND PURPOSES Developing from PPP to TBL: A Focused Grammar Task; L.Loumpourdi Integrating Task-based Learning Into a Business English Programme; P.Pullin-Stark Language as Topic: Learner-teacher Investigation of Concordances; R.Sheehan Storytelling with Low Level Learners: Developing Narrative Tasks; P.Kiernan Adding Tasks to Textbooks for Beginner Learners; T.Muller Using Language-focused Learning Journals on a Task-based Course; [...] PART 2: EXPLORING TASK INTERACTION: HELPING LEARNERS DO BETTER Exam-oriented Tasks: Transcripts, Turn-Taking and Backchanelling; M.Leedham Training Young Learners in Meaning Negotiation Skills: Does it Help?; S-M. Lee Task Repetition with 10-year-old Children; A.Pinter Collaborative Tasks for Cross-cultural Communication; D.Coulson PART 3: EXPLORING TASK LANGUAGE: LEXICAL PHRASES AND PATTERNS Interactive Lexical Phrases in Pair Interview Tasks; [...] Multi-word Chunks in Oral Tasks; M.Baigent Can We Predict Language Items for Open Tasks?; [...] PART 4: INVESTIGATING VARIABLES: TASK CONDITIONS AND TASK TYPES Fighting Fossilization: Language at the Task Versus Report Stages; C.Johnston Story-telling: Effects of Planning, Repetition and Context; [...] The Effect of Pre-task Planning Time on Task-based Performance; A.Djapoura Balancing Fluency, Accuracy and Complexity Through Task Characteristics; [...] Quality Interaction and Types of Negotiation in Problem-solving and Jigsaw Tasks; G.Poupore EPILOGUE: Teachers Exploring Research; C.Edwards References Index