Martin Bygate

Biographic Data

ID5998955
NAMEMartin Bygate
GIVEN NAMESMartin
FAMILY NAMEBygate
SIGNATUREBYGATE M
AFFILIATIONSLancaster University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Theory, empiricism and practice

    Open AccessMartin Bygate, Susan M Gass et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Applied…2026

    This commentary includes consideration of theory, opinion, empirical work, evaluative work and practice in a subset of papers that appeared in ARAL (2016) on task-based language teaching. Addressing the wider logic, theoretical underpinnings and instructional implications of TBLT is a serious applied linguistics challenge and one that the TBLT area is increasingly in a position to engage with in the search for evidence-based solutions to problems…

  • Some directions for the possible survival of TBLT as a real world project

    Open AccessMartin BygateARTICLELanguage Teaching2020Cited by: 8References: 58

    Since Brumfit's landmark definition of applied linguistics as the theoretical and empirical study of real world problems in which language plays a central role (Brumfit, 2000), there have been periodic calls for applied linguistics to engage with problems experienced by people in real world contexts (such as teaching, health, business, law, social services, business or family), rather than problems of research methodology originating in the resea…

  • TBLT through the lens of applied linguistics

    Martin BygateARTICLEITL - International Journal of…2016

    Ever since the establishment in the 1940’s of the distinguished journal Language Learning , a significant proportion of research in applied linguistics has defined itself as aiming to address practical problems of language teaching. Given the definition of applied linguistics as ‘the theoretical and empirical study of real world problems in which language has a central role’ (after Brumfit, 2001), an ambition to relate its work to practical langu…

  • Task‐Based Language Teaching

    Open AccessMartin Bygate, John Norris et al.CHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2015

    Task‐based language teaching (TBLT) is an approach to pedagogy in which communication tasks are fundamental to language learning. In TBLT, the notion of task indicates language‐learning activities in which students are required to use language with a primary focus on meaning, in order to achieve some communicative outcome. They range in scope from brief spoken exchanges to extended written performances to integrated, multimodal language use in fa…

  • Aila Matters

    Open AccessMartin Bygate, Delphine Perrin et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Applied…2010

  • Tasks in Second Language Learning

    Open AccessVirginia Samuda, Martin BygateBOOKTasks in Second Language Learning2008

    Tasks in Second Language Learning aims to re-centre discussion of the ways in which language learning tasks can help offer a holistic approach to language learning, and to explore the research implica

  • Applied Linguistics

    Martin BygateARTICLEApplied Linguistics2005

    It is some 25 years since the first issue of Applied Linguistics, and so it is perhaps timely that this issue brings together a wide-ranging set of papers, each from a quite distinct area of applied linguistics. I am grateful for the opportunity to respond to them, which I do by attempting to reflect on what the papers say to us about the nature and internal cohesion of applied linguistics today. As has often been pointed out (e.g. Davies 1999) u…

  • Some current trends in applied linguistics

    Open AccessMartin BygateARTICLEAILA Review2004

    This paper argues that the most significant trend in applied linguistics is the emergence of the field as a generic discipline, involving several subareas, all characterised by the aim of developing theoretical and empirical studies of language as a key element in real world problems. Various subsidiary trends are apparent including numerous methodological and theoretical developments. The paper argues that so far these trends respond only incons…

  • Task as context for the framing, reframing and unframing of language

    Open AccessMartin BygateARTICLESystem1999Cited by: 5

  • Theoretical Perspectives on Speaking

    Open AccessMartin BygateARTICLEAnnual Review of Applied…1998

    Second language (SL) speaking has not been recognized as a research area as readily as have reading, writing, or listening. For instance, the 25th anniversary volume of TESOL Quarterly had papers on reading, writing, and listening, but apart from a paper on pronunciation, not a single one on speaking. This may be due to assumptions such as the following: 1) SLA studies in any case focus on oral language production (e.g., the morpheme acquisition …

  • Language Teaching

    Bill Johnston, Christiane Dalton‐puffer et al.ARTICLETESOL Quarterly1998

    Language Knowledge: Pronunciation. Christiane Dalton and Barbara Seidlhofer. 1994. Language Knowledge: Grammar. Rob Batstone. 1994. Language Knowledge: Vocabulary. Michael McCarthy. 1990. Language Knowledge: Discourse. Guy Cook. 1989. Modes of Behaviour: Listening. Anne Anderson and Tony Lynch. 1988. Modes of Behaviour: Speaking. Martin Bygate. 1987. Modes of Behaviour: Reading: Catherine Wallace. 1992. Modes of Behaviour: Writing.: Christopher T…

  • Units of Oral Expression and Language Learning in Small Group Interaction

    Martin BygateARTICLEApplied Linguistics1988

    Journal Article Units of Oral Expression and Language Learning in Small Group Interaction Get access MARTIN BYGATE MARTIN BYGATE University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 1988, Pages 59–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/9.1.59 Published: 01 March 1988 Article history Received: 01 August 1986 Published: 01 March 1988

  • An approach to undergraduate course design in Brazil

    Open AccessMartin Bygate, Barbara O Baptista et al.ARTICLESystem1985References: 4