‎'‎‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎High quality‎,‎extremely readable and accessible‎.‎ I anticipate that the volume will be extremely popular with classroom teachers‎.‎ I found it refreshing‎,‎ and even exciting‎,‎ to read accounts of professional practice by people who have not hitherto been widely published‎.‎ The volume will be useful‎,‎ not only on MA courses but also on a wide range of in‎-service courses‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎an exciting and innovative project‎.‎‎'‎‎- Professor David Nunan‎,‎The English Centre‎,‎ Hong Kong ‎'‎A rich collection of tasks‎,‎ used successfully by the chapter authors‎,‎ that EFL teachers anywhere can use to increase their own repertoire ‎- or to implement task‎-based learning for the first time in their own classrooms‎.‎ ESL teachers in the United States and other English‎-speaking countries likewise can make effective use of every chapter in the book‎.‎‎'‎ ‎- Professor Betty Lou Leaver‎,‎ Dean New York Institute of Technology in Amman‎,‎ Jordan ‎'‎Classroom teaching and learning ordinarily center on specific language tasks‎.‎ Instruction becomes more effective when teachers understand the role of language tasks‎,‎ recognize their students‎'‎ needs‎,‎ and apply both types of information in a sound‎,‎ creative way‎.‎ With better task‎-based instruction as a goal‎,‎ current and future teachers will benefit from the enlightening explorations in this book‎.‎ In addition‎,‎ researchers will find that this book can inform and enrich many classroom investigations‎.‎‎'‎ ‎- Professor Rebecca Oxford‎,‎ Department of Education‎,‎ University of Maryland‎,‎USA ‎'‎Classroom teaching and learning ordinarily centre on specific language tasks‎.‎ Instruction becomes more effective when teachers understand the role of language tasks‎,‎ recognize their students‎'‎ needs‎,‎ and apply both types of information in a sound‎,‎ creative way‎.‎ With better task‎-based instruction as a goal‎,‎ current and future teachers will benefit from the enlightening explorations in this book‎.‎ In addition‎,‎ researchers will find that this book can inform and enrich many classroom investigations‎.‎‎'‎ ‎- Professor Rebecca Oxford‎,‎ Department of Education‎,‎ University of Maryland‎,‎ USA ‎'‎A rich collection of tasks‎,‎ used successfully by the chapter authors‎,‎ that EFL teachers anywhere can use to increase their own repertoire ‎- or to implement task‎-based learning for the first time in their own classrooms‎.‎ ESL teachers in the United States and other English‎-speaking countries likewise can make effective use of every chapter in the book‎.‎‎'‎ ‎- Professor Betty Lou Leaer‎,‎ Dean‎,‎ New York Institute of Technology in Amman‎,‎ Jordan ‎'‎Classroom teaching and learning ordinarily centre on specific language tasks‎.‎ Instruction becomes more effective when teachers understand the role of language tasks‎,‎ recognize their students‎'‎ needs‎,‎ and apply both types of information in a sound‎,‎ creative way‎.‎ With better task‎-based instruction as a goal‎,‎ current and future teachers will benefit from the enlightening‎,‎ explorations in this book‎.‎ In addition‎,‎ researchers will find that this book can inform and enrich many classroom investigations‎.‎‎'‎ ‎- Professor Rebecca Oxford‎,‎ Department of Education‎,‎ University of Maryland‎,‎ USA ‎'‎The book fills a serious gap that existed in the literature on task based teaching‎,‎ by providing case studies of how teachers implement task‎-based teaching in their classrooms‎.‎ The range of situations represented is impressive‎,‎ with contributors from many parts of the world teaching at different levels‎.‎ The papers are all accessible and focussed‎,‎ and provide an excellent springboard for classroomdiscussion and follow up work by teachers‎.‎‎'‎ ‎- Jack C Richards‎,‎ Adjunct Professor‎,‎ Regional Language Centre‎,‎ Singapore and Maquarrie University‎,‎ Australia ‎'‎This book is a great example of using small‎-scale projects to investigate certain aspects of the class you are teaching and demonstrates how the teachers in the trenches can give back to the academic community‎.‎ I would recommend reading it to any teacher of English as a foreign language starting out or looking for a cure to feeling burnt out‎.‎‎'‎ ‎- Kevin Laurence Landry‎,‎ Linguist List ‎'‎Promises to be useful reading especially for anyone struggling to see how language learning happens in TBL in practice‎.‎‎'‎ ‎- The Teacher Trainer