Form-Focused Task-Based Instruction

This book presented a model of foreign language vocabulary instruction that integrated task-based and forms-focused instruction. Form-focused task-based instruction involves a wide variety of instructional techniques and strategies, which is in line with second language learning theories that highlight the role of attention and consciousness in language learning. In this framework, the instruction is based on attracting the attention of learners to specific forms, within the meaningful and interactive context that is provided by the use of the tasks. The interactive nature of the tasks as well as the attention to language forms provide a balance in language learning and it was proved to be a confident way of keeping vocabulary in long-term memory.