Download PDFOpen PDF in browserChallenges in Task Design for Learners of Russian with a Low Level of Proficiency10 pages•Published: February 23, 2017AbstractThe 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 based language teaching, task complexity, task design In: Chelo Vargas-Sierra (editor). Professional and Academic Discourse: an Interdisciplinary Perspective, vol 2, pages 82-91.
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