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  • 5A - Blustery with an Occasional Downpour

  • from Part II - Tasks and Needs Analysis
  • Edited by Mohammad Javad Ahmadian, University of Leeds, Michael H. Long, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language Teaching
    Published online:
    19 November 2021
    Print publication:
    09 December 2021, pp 173-187

  • Summary

    This case study is an analysis of target discourse to collect and analyze discourse samples of radio and television forecasts. We focused on three aspects of an analysis of target discourse: (a) identifying recurrent subtasks to understand the internal structure of weather forecast discourse, (b) analyzing linguistic features that frequently co-occur with the subtasks (i.e., structural ellipsis and technical and sub-technical vocabulary), and (c) developing samples of prototypical discourse that can be put to use in task-based materials. Our intention in this chapter is to be as descriptive and transparent as possible in reporting methods and procedures of analysis, so interested researchers and practitioners can refer to this study when conducting their own analysis of target discourse studies.