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Challenges in Task Design for Learners of Russian with a Low Level of Proficiency

10 pagesPublished: February 23, 2017

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to analyze some of the issues related to task design in Russian on the basis of a pilot study carried out with 19 bilingual Catalan- and Spanish-speaking participants. They performed six form-focused tasks targeted at the use of case forms and verbs of movement in Russian. Although some problems in task design were detected, t-test showed that learners improved significantly in the use of the target forms.

Keyphrases: Focus on form, Russian as a foreign language, task complexity, task design, task-based language teaching

In: Chelo Vargas-Sierra (editor). Professional and Academic Discourse: an Interdisciplinary Perspective, vol 2, pages 82--91

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BibTeX entry
@inproceedings{AESLA2016:Challenges_in_Task_Design,
  author    = {Elena Markina},
  title     = {Challenges in Task Design for Learners of Russian with a Low Level of Proficiency},
  booktitle = {Professional and Academic Discourse: an Interdisciplinary Perspective},
  editor    = {Chelo Vargas-Sierra},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics},
  volume    = {2},
  pages     = {82--91},
  year      = {2017},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-5283},
  url       = {https://easychair.org/publications/paper/VcLh},
  doi       = {10.29007/5z5g}}
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