Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Criteria for Classifying and Sequencing Pedagogic Tasks -- Chapter 2. Information Distribution and Goal Orientation in Second Language Task Design -- Chapter 3. The Simultaneous Manipulation of Task Complexity Along Planning Time and (+/- Here-and-Now): Effects on L2 Oral Production -- Chapter 4. Tasks, Negotiation, and L2 Learning in a Foreign Language Context -- Chapter 5. Attention to Form Across Collaborative Tasks by Low-Proficiency Learners in an EFL Setting -- Chapter 6. Cognitive Task Complexity and Linguistic Performance in French L2 Writing -- Chapter 7. The Effect of Manipulating Task Complexity Along the (± Here-and-Now) Dimension on L2 Written Narrative Discourse -- Chapter 8. Writing Tasks: The Effects of Collaboration -- Chapter 9. L2 Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension: The Influence of Task Complexity -- Chapter 10. Task-Effect on the Use of Lexical Innovation Strategies in Interlanguage Communication -- Chapter 11. Fostering EFL Learners'Awareness of Requesting Through Explicit and Implicit Consciousness-Raising Tasks -- Chapter 12. Interactive Task Design: Metachat and the Whole Learner -- Index