This paper shows how Task-Based Learning (TBL) is used to equip second-year Spanish students at Cardiff University for their placements during their year abroad. We present a set of task-based projects embedded within the curriculum to enhance both (1) the competences students have to acquire throughout their degree, and (2) the skills to overcome…

Analyzes the information processing requirements of two different forms of job-related reading: "reading to do" and "reading to learn." Breaks down the component skills of reading into a seven-point taxonomy, which is then used to describe how information processing differs in the two forms of reading. (FL)

This document contains three papers from a symposium on technological change and human resource development. "New Technologies, Cognitive Demands, and the Implications for Learning Theory" (Richard J. Torraco) identifies four specific characteristics of the tasks involved in using new technologies (contingent versus deterministic tasks,…