How to Teach an Additional Language: To Task or Not to Task (A Book Review)

Mauro Marinho da Silva; Raquel Carolina Souza Ferraz D'Ely

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2026.e109127

Autores

Mauro Marinho da Silva Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7065-9383
Raquel Carolina Souza Ferraz D'Ely Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2851-1868

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2026.e109127

Palavras-chave:

Book Review, How to teach an additional language

Resumo

Review of VAN DEN BRANDEN, K. How to teach an additional language: to task or not to task? Task‑Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, v. 15. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022. 308 p.

Biografia do Autor

Mauro Marinho da Silva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Mauro Marinho da Silva is a doctoral candidate in Linguistic and Literary Studies at the Graduate Program in English (PPGI), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), holds a Master's degree in Education from the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA), and is a professor at the Federal Institute of Pará (IFPA).

Raquel Carolina Souza Ferraz D'Ely, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Raquel Carolina Souza Ferraz D’Ely, PhD (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Her research interests include second language acquisition, task-based language teaching and learning, and individual differences in SLA. Her publications include articles in leading Brazilian journals and book chapters on task-based performance, with particular emphasis on strategic planning and repetition as metacognitive processes, the use of pedagogic tasks in intact classrooms, task-based mediated technology, and critical approaches to ELT pedagogy.

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