Jane F Willis

Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education: Practices and Programs

Task-based language instruction has proven to be highly effective, but surprisingly underutilized. Theory can only go so far and hands-on experience can greatly speed and enhance the learning of a second language. Nineteen talented instructors who have successfully implemented task-based programs ex...

Miss Lucy Jane

The fanciful Miss Lucy Jane is "full of dreams and flap-doodle schemes" as she creates a wonderful week of amazing adventures. From building "rainbow smiles on a stilt" to "collecting one wish off a fin of each fish" to lassoing "Mars just to measure the stars," she makes each day delightfully her o...

11 Points to Start Losing Weight: A Neuro-Linguistic Programming Approach to Weight Loss

Diets don't work. It may sound as an outrageous statement, but it couldn't any truer. According to a new study 95% of people regain the lost weight after being on a diet for a certain amount of time.This guide provides a different way to lose excess weight and stay fit for the rest of your life; a N...

Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching

This book was written for language teachers by language teachers, with a view to encouraging readers to use more tasks in their lessons, and to explore for themselves various aspects of task-based teaching and learning. It gives insights into ways in which tasks can be designed, adapted and implemen...

English for Primary Teachers with Audio CD (Resource Books for Teachers)

This book is an easy to use introduction to teaching English to children in elementary grades. It offers advice and practical teaching tips while building teachers' confidence in their ability to use classroom English effectively. The audio CD gives examples of language from actual classrooms.

Whirled: Life, Loss, and Healing on the High Plains

“Whirled” is the memoir of a minister who moves from big city life to a small town church in Wyoming, where she learns to live with one foot in history and the other in modern culture. After a tragic loss, wildfires in the nearby mountains, and nagging self-doubt, the author finds healing, wholeness...

Lose Weight and Live Strong: The Ultimate Guide to Beat Obesity

A book designed and written to help you understand obesity and to give you the perfect tools to help lose weight and live strong.

Doing Task-Based Teaching (Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers)

This book provides teachers with a better understanding of task-based learning and how it works, including how to incorporate tasks with textbook material.

Doing Tasked Based Teaching

Men Without Dates and Slam!

Geniesh; An Indian Girlhood.

Jane Willis

Jane Willis is a partner and the co-head of the business & securities litigation practice at Ropes & Gray. She is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy.