The Centre for Language and Migration is currently preparing a volume on task-based language education, to appear in the Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series (Series Editors: Jack Richards and Michael Long).

This volume ‘Task-based language education: from theory to practice’ is edited by Kris Van den Branden, and will contain the following contributions:

• Task-based language teaching in a nutshell (Kris Van den Branden)
• From needs to tasks: Language learning needs in a task-based approach (Piet Van Avermaet & Sara Gysen)
• Tasks for absolute beginners… and beyond: Developing and sequencing tasks at basic proficiency levels (Goedele Duran & Griet Ramaut)
• Task-based syllabus design: Task features enhancing academic language learning (Koen Van Gorp & Nora Bogaert)
• Tasks across the curriculum (Nora Bogaert, Koen Van Gorp, Katrien Bultynck, An Lanssens & Veerle Depauw)
• TBLT and ICT: Developing and assessing interactive multimedia for task-based language teaching (Walter Schrooten)
• Developing and introducing task-based language tests (Marleen Colpin & Sara Gysen)
• The role of the teacher in TBLT (Piet Van Avermaet, Marleen Colpin, Koen Van Gorp, Nora Bogaert & Kris Van den Branden)
• A box full of feelings: Promoting infants’ second language acquisition all day long (Machteld Verhelst)
• Teacher training: task-based as well? (Kris Van den Branden)

Other international publications written by staff members of the CLM include:

Devlieger, M. (1998). The Applicability of Speech Recognition in the Context of Task-Based Language Learning for Young Children. In: ESCA Workshop on Speech Technology in Language Learning (STiLL 98), Proceedings, Marholmen Conference Centre, Sweden, May 24-27, 1998. Stockholm: ESCA and Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, 187-189.

Figueras, N., North, B., Takala, S., Verhelst, N. & P. Van Avermaet (2005). Relating Examinations to the Common European Framework: A Manual. Language Testing, Volume 22/3, 261-279.

Gysen, S. & P. Van Avermaet (2005). Issues on Functional Language Performance Assessment. The case of the Certificate Dutch as a Foreign Language. Language Assessment Quarterly- International Journal. Volume 2/1, 51-68.

Klatter-Folmer, J. & P. Van Avermaet (1997). The relation between language choice, self-assessment of L2 competence and socio-cultural factors amongst Italians in Flanders and Turks in The Netherlands: a theoretical outline. In: Views on the acquisition and use of a second language. EUROSLA’7 Proceedings. Barcelona: 22-24 May 1997. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 191-200.

Klatter-Folmer, J. & P. Van Avermaet (Eds.) (2001). Theories on maintenance and loss of minority languages. Towards a more integrated explanatory framework. Münster:Waxmann.

Ramaut, G. (1998). The state of minority languages in Flemish multilingual schools. In: Khruslov, G. & S. Kroon (eds), The challenge of multilingualism to standard language teaching. Cases from Flanders, England, The Netherlands, Germany and Russia. Moscow: Institute for national Problems of Education, 285-290.

Ramaut, G. (2000). Language Norms in a Multilingual Flemish Nursery School. In: Gogolin, I. & S. Kroon (Red.), Man schreibt, wie man spricht. Ergebnisse einer international vergleichenden Fallstudie über Unterricht in vielsprachigen Klassen, Interkulturelle Bildungsforschung. Bd. 7. Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 41-61.

Van Avermaet, P. & J. Klatter-Folmer (1998). The role of L2 Self-Assessment in Language Choice Behaviour: Immigrant Shift to Dutch in Flanders and the Netherlands. In: Te Reo (Journal of the linguistic Society of New Zealand), Volume 41, Special Issue 1998: Proceedings of the Sixth Language and Society Conference, June 1998, 137-152.

Van Avermaet, P., Kuijper, H. & N. Saville (2004). A Code of Practice and Quality Management System for International Language Examinations. Language Assessment Quarterly- International Journal, Volume 1/2&3, 137-150.

Van Avermaet, P. et al. (2004). CNaVT: A more functional approach. Principles and construction of a profile-related examination system. Studies In Language Testing 18, 249-260.

Van den Branden, K. (1995). Negotiation of meaning in second language acquisition: a study of primary school classes. Doctoral Dissertation, Faculty of Arts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Van den Branden, K. (1997). Effects of negotiation on language learners' output. Language Learning 47/4, 589-636.

Van den Branden, K. (2000). Does negotiation of meaning promote reading comprehension? A study of multilingual primary school classes. Reading Research Quarterly 35/2, 426-443.

Van den Branden, K. & K. Van Gorp (2000). How to evaluate CLIM in terms of intercultural education? Intercultural education 11 Supplement 2000, S42-S51.

Van den Branden, K., V. Depauw & S. Gysen (2002). A computerized task-based test of second language Dutch for vocational training purposes. Language Testing 19/4, 438-452.

Van den Branden, K. (2005). Second language education: practice in perfect learning conditions? To appear in R. DeKeyser (ed.), Practising in a second language: perspectives from applied linguistics and cognitive psychology (Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Van Gorp, K. & K. Van den Branden (2003). Co-operative Learning in Multicultural groups: how co-operative is it? In: T. Koole, J., Nortier & B. Tahitu (Red.), Artikelen van de Vierde Sociolinguïstische Conferentie. Delft: Eburon, 498-511.

Paper presentations at international conferences
(outlines and powerpoint presentations available)

Bogaert, N. (2003). A route to academic literacy. Our experience in the Flemish educational equality context. Paper presented at the conference 'Multiliteracies and the Contact Zone’, Vakgroep Onderwijskunde - Universiteit Gent, Belgium, 22-27 September 2003.

Bogaert, N. & G. Goossens (1996). Tasks accomplished? Implementation of an Analytic Approach to Language Teaching in Secondary Schools. Paper presented at the ‘International Conference on Second Language Learning in Secondary Schools’, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 17-19 May 1995.

Bogaert, N. & K. Van Gorp (1997). When information meets: divided information tasks to improve language proficiency. Paper presented at the conference ‘Cooperation and Diversity. Cooperative Learning in Intercultural Education’, International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE), Södertalje, Sweden, 10-13 August 1997.

Colpin, M. (2005). Assessing the language proficiency of young learners in the Dutch classroom: developing and implementing task based tests. Paper presented at ‘The EALTA Conference’, Voss, Norway, 2- 5 June 2005.

Depauw, V. (1998). Courseware development for low-qualified (non-native) adults within a task-based framework. Paper presented at ‘ALC/IRAAL Conference, Integrating theory and practice in LSP and LAP', Dublin, Ireland, March 1998.

Depauw, V. & S. Gysen (2001). Measuring Dutch language proficiency. A computer-based test for low-skilled adults and an evaluation system for primary school pupils. Paper presented at ALTE European Year of Languages Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 2001.

Gxilishe, S. & K. Van Gorp (2000). An International Perspective on Developing Multilingualism at Primary School Level. Paper presented at the conference ‘Applied Language Studies and Services into the Millennium’, Centre for Applied Language Studies and Services in Africa (CALSSA), University of Capetown, South-Africa, 9-11 December 2000.

Gysen, S. (2003). An approach to strengthen the assumption of representativeness, generalisability and predictability of language assessment tasks. Paper presented at ‘Language Testing Research Colloquium’, Reading, UK, July 2003.

Gysen, S., Lanssens, A. & P. Van Avermaet (2003). The Certificate Dutch as a Foreign Language. Paper presented at ‘ALTE meeting’, Salamanca, Spain, November 2003.

Gysen, S. & P. Van Avermaet (2004). A functional approach of language assessment: the relation with the CEF. Paper presented at ‘International seminar about the Common European Framework of References for Languages’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 2004.

Gysen, S. & P. Van Avermaet (2004). Linking language examinations to the CEF in a diversified European assessment context. Paper presented at ‘International seminar about the Common European Framework of References for Languages’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 2004.

Gysen, S. & M. Verhelst (2004). Assessing the language proficiency of young learners in the Dutch classroom. Paper presented at the Conference Day ‘Testing the less-widely spoken languages’, ‘ALTE meeting’, Bilbao, Spain, November 2004.

Gysen, S. & P. Van Avermaet (2005). Identifying and investigating parameters affecting language performance within a task-based language assessment approach. Paper presented at ‘ALTE Conference, Language Assessment in a multinlingual context: attaining standards, sustaining diversity’, Berlin, Germany, 19-21, May 2005.

Jaspaert, K (1993). Expectations and Motivations: two neglected Perspectives on Communication. Invited key note lecture at the Conference on Ethnicity, Göteborg, Sweden, November 1993.

Jaspaert, K. (1994). Language Teaching in Multicultural Schools. Invited key note lecture at the conference ‘Language Teaching in Multicultural Schools’, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, July 1994.

Jaspaert, K. (1995). Second Language Acquisition in Flanders. Invited key note lecture at the ‘International Conference on Second Language Learning in Secondary Schools’, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 17-19 May 1995.

Klatter-Folmer, J. & P. Van Avermaet (1997). Language schift amongst Italians in Flanders and Turks in The Netherlands. Paper presented at the 1st International Symposium on Bilingualism, Vigo, 21-25 October 1997.

Lanssens, A. & P. Van Avermaet (2000). Adult basic education in Flanders (Belgium): a functional perspective. Paper presented at the conference ‘Applied Language Studies and Services into the Millenium’, Centre for Applied Language Studies and Services in Africa (CALSSA), University of Capetown, South-Africa, 9-11 December 2000.

Lanssens, A. & P. Van Avermaet (2001). Monolingual policy and language education in a multilingual society: tensions between two paradigms. Paper presented at ‘SLE 2001, Language study in Europe at the turn of the millennium. Towards the integration of cognitive, historical and cultural approaches to language’, Leuven, Belgium, 28th august – 1st September 2001.

Maddens, N. (2005). Developing an interlocutor instruction video for the assessment of functional oral interaction. Paper presented at ALTE Conference ‘Language Assessment in a multinlingual context: attaining standards, sustaining diversity’, Berlin, Germany, 19-21 May 2005.

Van Avermaet, P. & J. Klatter-Folmer (2001). Social determinants of language shift amongst ethnic minority groups. The role of power and the attraction of the majority group. Paper presented at ‘SLE 2001, Language study in Europe at the turn of the millennium. Towards the integration of cognitive, historical and cultural approaches to language’, Leuven, Belgium, 28th august – 1st September 2001.

Van Avermaet, P., Kuijper, H. & N. Saville (2002). Quality Management in Language Testing. Paper presented at ‘Language Assessment Ethics Conference’, California State University, Los Angeles, USA.

Van Avermaet, P. & V. Depauw (2004). The Dutch pamphlet on the use of the CEFr. Paper presented at 'First European Association for Language Testers in Europe conference (EALTA), Kransja Gora, Slovenia, May 2004.

Van den Branden, K. (1996). Does negotiation of meaning promote reading comprehension? Paper presented at ‘AILA, 11th World Congress of Applied Linguistics’, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 1996.

Van den Branden, K. (1996). Negotiation of meaning in the classroom: making it happen. Paper presented at ‘AAAL-conference, International Conference of the Association of American Applied Linguistics’, Florida, USA.

Van den Branden, K. (1999). Psycholinguistic research and L2-curriculum design. Paper presented at ‘AILA, 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics’, Tokio, Japan.

Van den Branden, K. & K. Van Gorp (2000). How to evaluate CLIM in terms of intercultural education? Paper presented at the conference ‘Intercultural Education and Co-operative Learning: Insights and Practices after Five Years of European Experience’, Centre for Intercultural Education, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, 13-16 May 2000.

Van Gorp, K. (1999). Task-based language learning: jigsaw tasks as a means to improve language proficiency. Paper presented at the ‘Second International Conference of the International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education. The Learning and Teaching of Language and Literature, IAIMTE’, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14-16 July 1999.

Van Gorp, K. (2001. Writing a fictional leaflet in a task-based approach. An efficient way to improve the language proficiency of L1 and L2 speakers. Paper presented at the ‘Third conference of the International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education on the learning and teaching of language and literature’, IAIMTE, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001.

Vanmontfort, M. (1995). Learning a language in two worlds: problems and possible solutions. Paper presented at ‘IACE’, Monticelo New York, USA, July 1995.

Verhelst, M. (1998). The relationship between oral input and acquisition of L2 vocabulary. Paper presented at ‘The 18th Second Language Research Forum’, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu Manoa, 15-18 October 1998.

Verhelst, M. (1999). The Relation between Oral Language Input and Incidental Acquisition of Second Language Productive Vocabulary with Young Children. Paper presented at the ‘International Symposium on Bilingualism’, University of Newcastle, UK, 14-17 April 1999.

Verhelst, M. (1999). The Relation between Oral Language Input and Incidental Acquisition of Second Language Vocabulary with Young Children. Poster presented at the ‘VIIIth International congress for the study of Child Language’, San Sebastian, Spain, 12-16 July 1999.

Verhelst, M. (2005). The Relationship between Learner Characteristics and SLA with young immigrant children in Brussels. Paper presented at ‘The International symposium on Bilingualism’, Barcelona, Spain, 20-23 March 2005.

Verhelst, M. (2005). Circus Kiekeboe succeeds in promoting literacy in multilingual Kindergartens. Paper and poster presented at ‘The Fifth International Conference of the International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education. The Learning and Teaching of Language and Literature, IAIMTE’, Albi, France, 10-15 May 2005.

Verhelst, M. (2005). Assessing young learners’ language proficiency. Paper presented at ‘The EALTA Conference’, Voss, Norway, 2- 5 June 2005.