Teachers and learners alike have long struggled with the most appropriate procedures to solve the problem of the best way to learn a second or foreign language. Many theories and relevant applied methodologies have appeared during the last century all claiming to be superior to others in tackling the issue of L2 learning. Among the most fashionable and recent applications of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theories has been task-based approach to language teaching and learning. The research-based book was set out to investigate whether task-oriented activities bear any superiority to those...

Writers in different fields utilize different means to achieve success in the communication of their intended meaning to their audience. By manipulating textual resources, writers sometimes say something and mean something different. Much has been said and written about discourse properties such as cohesion and coherence which contribute to what is called texture in a text. The use of such textual resources has been extensively examined in a variety of written and spoken genres. Along the same line of enquiry, a more recent approach in applied linguistics in general and discourse analysis in...