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Citations
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World Ranking
3707
National Ranking
630

Overview

Peter Skehan is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within the arts and humanities, with a strong focus on psychology as it relates to language learning and teaching.

The main fields of study for Skehan include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Psychology

Within these fields, the key subfields covered are:

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

The primary topics consistently addressed in Skehan's work are:

  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

Skehan has contributed to the academic community through various recent papers, including:

  • "Developing a task-based approach to assessment in an Asian context," 2020, System
  • "Stages of Acquisition and the P/E Model of Working Memory: Complementary or contrasting approaches to foreign language aptitude?" 2021, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
  • "Performance Profiles on Second Language Speaking Tasks," 2021, Modern Language Journal
  • "Re-examining accuracy measures in second language task-based spoken performance," 2024, Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
  • "Linking second language speaking task performance and language testing," 2023, Language Teaching

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Mohammad Javad Ahmadian
  • Michael Long
  • Gavin Bui
  • Zhan Wang
  • Sabrina Shum

Skehan's publications have appeared in several academic venues, notably:

  • Language Teaching
  • Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
  • Modern Language Journal
  • System
  • Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

In addition to articles, Skehan has authored a book published by Cambridge University Press titled The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language Teaching, released in 2021.

Best Publications

  • A Cognitive Approach to Language Learning

    Peter Skehan

  • Individual Differences in Second Language Learning

    Peter Skehan

  • A FRAMEWORK FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TASK-BASED INSTRUCTION

    Peter Skehan

  • Task-based instruction

    Peter Skehan

  • The Influence of Planning and Task Type on Second Language Performance

    Pauline Foster;Peter Skehan

  • Researching Pedagogic Tasks: Second Language Learning, Teaching, and Testing

    Martin Bygate;Peter Skehan;Merrill Swain

  • Modelling Second Language Performance: Integrating Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency, and Lexis

    Peter Skehan

  • The Influence of Task Structure and Processing Conditions on Narrative Retellings.

    Peter Skehan;Pauline Foster

  • Task type and task processing conditions as influences on foreign language performance

    Peter Skehan;Pauline Foster

  • 9. Strategic planning, task structure and performance testing

    Parveneh Tavakoli;Peter Skehan

  • Cognition and Second Language Instruction: Cognition and tasks

    Peter Skehan;Pauline Foster

  • The influence of source of planning and focus of planning on task-based performance

    Pauline Foster;Peter Skehan

  • Tasks and Language Performance Assessment

    Peter Skehan

  • Chapter 18. Individual Differences in Second Language Learning

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  • Book Reviews : A Cognitive Approach To Language Learning

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  • Task-Based Language Teaching: Theory and Practice

    Rod Ellis;Peter Skehan;Shaofeng Li;Natsuko Shintani

  • Processing perspectives on task performance

    Peter Skehan

  • 7. Strategic and on-line planning: The influence of surprise information and task time on second language performance

    Peter Skehan;Pauline Foster

  • Focus on Form, Tasks, and Technology

    Peter Skehan

  • Foreign Language Aptitude Theory: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

    Zhisheng (Edward) Wen;Adriana Biedroń;Peter Skehan

  • The role of foreign language aptitude in a model of school learning

    Peter Skehan

  • Researching Pedagogic Tasks: Second Language Learning, Teaching, and Testing. Applied Linguistics and Language Study.

    Martin Bygate;Peter Skehan;Merrill Swain

  • Individual Differences in Second-Language Learning

    Rebecca L. Oxford;Peter Skehan

Frequent Co-Authors

Rod Ellis
Rod Ellis Curtin University
Merrill Swain
Merrill Swain University of Toronto
Rebecca L. Oxford
Rebecca L. Oxford University of Maryland, College Park

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