Exploring English Language Teaching : Language in Action (Hardcover, 2 ed)

PART I: Classroom interaction and management

1. The language classroom: roles, relationships and interactions
2. Intervening in the language classroom: classroom management, interaction and learning opportunities
3. The language classroom in theory and practice: complex, diverse and ‘local’

PART II: Method, Postmethod and methodology

4. Language, language learning and Method: dilemmas and practices
5. Language teaching methods: perspectives and possibilities
6. Theoretical insights for a Postmethod era

PART III: Learners

7. Focus on the language learner: individual attributes and attitudes
8. Learner diversity and development: considerations for the language classroom…and beyond
9. Images of language learners: from individual to social, and universal to specific

PART IV: Institutional frameworks and social contexts

10. From global trends to local contexts: language dilemmas in the ELT classroom
11. Planning and organizing L2 learning and teaching: contexts and curriculum, possibilities and realities
12. ELT in the world: education and politics, context and goals

Commentary on selected tasks

Glossary

Further reading

References

Index