Acknowledgements Preface Section 1: Introduction Chapter 1: A brief history of task-based language teaching and research Chapter 2: Task-based research and language pedagogy Section 2: Researching task-based teaching Chapter 3: Non-Reciprocal Tasks, Comprehension and Second Language Acquisition Chapter 4: Focus on form: A critical review Chapter 5: Preparing learners to perform tasks Chapter 6: Is there a role for explicit instruction in task-based language teaching? Chapter 7: Measuring second language learners' performance of tasks Section 3: Task-based language pedagogy Chapter 8: Task-based language teaching: Sorting out the misunderstandings. Chapter 9: Moving task-based language teaching forward Chapter 10: Towards a modular curriculum Chapter 11: An options-based approach to doing task-based language teaching. Chapter 12: Teachers evaluating tasks Section 3: Conclusion Chapter 13: Key issues in Task-based research and pedagogy.