Short-listed for the British Council Innovation Awards 2004 that promote and reward excellence in English Language Teaching Designing Language Teaching Tasks provides a research-based account of how experienced teachers and task designers prepare activities for use in the language classroom. It gives detailed information on the procedures which designers follow. The book is a description of research and will therefore interest applied linguists and students in the field. It is written in a clear and comprehensible way, and should appeal to all those who want to learn to write good language teaching materials.

KEITH JOHNSON is Professor of Linguistics and Language Education at Lancaster University. His recent publications include An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (2001), Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics (1998), and Language Teaching and Skill Learning (1996). He is the founding editor of the journal Language Teaching Research.