none 10.1075/lllt.11.15tav John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67873478 1420419 1420417 202507022358000033 10.1075 2025-07-02T21:57:26Z 2014-03-24T07:41:33Z 293 1569-9471 10.1075/lllt https://benjamins.com/ catalog/lllt Rod Ellis University of Auckland https://ror.org/03b94tp07 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-1743 The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners’ performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these theories in a series of empirical studies. The book examines different types of planning (i.e. task rehearsal, pre-task planning and within-task planning), addressing both what learners do when they plan and the effects of the different types of planning on L2 production. The choice of planning as the variable for investigation in this book is motivated both by its importance for current theorizing about L2 acquisition (in particular with regard to cognitive theories that view acquisition in terms of information processing) and its utility to language teachers and language testers, for unlike many other constructs in SLA ‘planning’ lends itself to external manipulation. The study of planning, then, provides a suitable forum for demonstrating the interconnectedness of theory, research and pedagogy in SLA. 11 3 11 2005 7 1 2008 9789027219619 9781588116130 9789027219626 9781588116147 9789027294647 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/lllt.11 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027294647 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027294647.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/lllt.11/html Parvaneh Tavakoli Kings College, London https://ror.org/0220mzb33 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-3709 Peter Skehan Chinese University of Hong Kong https://ror.org/00t33hh48 3 11 2005 7 1 2008 239 273 10.1075/lllt.11.15tav https://benjamins.com/catalog/lllt.11.15tav https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/lllt.11.15tav/html