Language Form, Task-based Language Teaching, and the Classroom Context (II)

Task and activity So,should we say that this task turned out the way it did chiefly on account of the task design and i ts rationale,whilst noting that various social factors also played a role?Or could we go further,and suggest that the social context was pivotal in determining how the task was implemented?The key issue here is the degree to which task design is a reliable indicator of task outcomes,versus the extent to which events are shaped by an interaction between task and context,leading which we could not reliably predict solely on the basis of the task.