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Task-Based Language Teaching in Action: Principles, Research Insights, and Horizons offers an in-depth exploration of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), highlighting its potential as pedagogical innovation oriented towards authentic and significant communication. The book combines theoretical principles with empirical findings and practical reflections, providing an integral vision of how tasks influence students’ language performance and development.

Throughout its five chapters, this work reviews the origins and principles of TBLT, analyses the impact of tasks on key dimensions of language performance (complexity, accuracy, lexis, and fluency [CALF]), and examines factors such as task difficulty, planning conditions, language proficiency, student-related characteristics, and teachers’ beliefs. Moreover, the book puts forward the need for language teacher education sensitive to the teaching and learning context which trains teachers to adapt the principles of TBLT to their local realities and respond to the challenges of its implementation.

This book therefore becomes an invaluable resource for pre- and in-service teachers, language teacher educators, curriculum designers, and researchers interested in communicative approaches centred on the student. By bridging the gap between theory and practice, it proposes a more effective, flexible, and contextualized use of tasks in the language classroom, contributing to the development of communicative competence in a globalised world.