Can we promote students’ learning through designing tasks in certain ways, to encourage certain kinds of learner responses, and to guide them towards certain outcomes? This workshop provides a platform to discuss task design in the context of language education at three levels: (a) curriculum, (b) pedagogy, and (c) the task itself. First, it looks at task design at the curricular level, addre…

This workshop surveys three key components of learning-oriented assessment: (a) sharing learning expectations, (b) eliciting and interpreting evidence of learning, and (c) providing meaningful feedback. In this workshop, participants will be exposed to various examples of assessment activities, analyze them for advantages and disadvantages, and reflect on their own uses of assessment. The worksho…