Content: Theme 1: classroom interaction and management: The language classroom: roles, relationships and interactions --
Intervening in the language classroom: classroom management, interaction and learning opportunities --
The language classroom in theory and practice: complex, diverse and local --
Theme 2: Method, postmethod and methodology: Language, language learning and method: dilemmas and practices --
Language teaching methods: perspectives and possibilities --
theoretical insights for a postmethod era --
Theme 3: Learners: Focus on the language learner: individual attributes and attitudes --
Learner diversity and development: considerations for the language classroom ... and beyond --
Images of language learners: from individual to social, and universal to specific --
Theme 4 : Institutional frameworks and social contexts: From global trends to local contexts: language dilemmas in the ELT classroom --
Planning and organising L2 learning and teaching: contexts and curriculum, possibilities and realities --
ELT in the world: education and politics, contexts and goals.
Abstract: Provides a single volume introduction to the field of ELT from an applied linguistics perspective. The book addresses four central themes within English language teaching: 'Classroom interaction and management'; 'Method, Postmethod and methodology'; 'Learners'; and the 'Institutional frameworks and social contexts' of ELT. For each, the book identifies key dilemmas and practices, examines how teachers and other language teaching professionals might intervene and deal with these concerns, and explores how such issues link to and inform applied linguistic theory. --from publisher description