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.