Melissa Baralt
List of John Benjamins publications in which Melissa Baralt is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2666-1748 | E‑ISSN 2666‑1756
2026 Chapter 5. A needs analysis to develop TBLT curricula for Black Spanish language learners From Task-based Needs Analysis to Task and Syllabus Design: Insights from across educational contexts, Gilabert, Roger and Aleksandra Malicka (eds.), pp. 108–135 | Chapter
This chapter presents a task-based needs analysis conducted at a Historically Black College and University to design an inclusive Spanish curriculum that celebrates Blackness in Latin America. Guided by the frameworks of Critical Race Pedagogy for World Language Teaching and Hemispheric Black… read more
2018 Chapter 10. Becoming a task-based teacher educator: A case study TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy, Samuda, Virginia, Kris Van den Branden and Martin Bygate (eds.), pp. 265–286 | Chapter
In this chapter, I adopt a case study approach to my own transformation from academic researcher to university-level teacher educator responsible for training future language teachers and providing training and professional development workshops to language teachers in my community. I describe how… read more
2016 8. Engagement with the language: How examining learners’ affective and social engagement explains successful learner-generated attention to form Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning: Pedagogical potential and research agenda, Sato, Masatoshi and Susan Ballinger (eds.), pp. 209–239 | Article
Interactive tasks that have successfully promoted attention to form and language learning in face-to-face (FTF) can be ineffective when performed online (Baralt 2013, 2014). This research is concerning, given the push for online language classes in higher education (Leow, Cerezo, & Baralt 2015).… read more