The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching is the definitive reference volume for postgraduate students of Applied Linguistics, ELT and TESOL. 39 chapters cover inter-related themes progressing from `broader' contextual issues to a `narrower' focus on classrooms and classroom discourse. The authors are specialists from around the world, mindful of the diverse pedagogical, institutional and social contexts for ELT. They convincingly present the key issues, areas of debate and dispute, and future developments in ELT from an applied linguistics perspective. Further reading is included with every chapter.

Graham Hall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities, Northumbria University (UK) and the current editor of ELT Journal.

List of tables and figures AcknowledgementsList of contributorsIntroduction: English language teaching in the contemporary worldPART I1 World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca: a changingcontext for ELT2 Politics, power relationships and ELT3 Language and culture in ELT4 'Native speakers', English and ELT: changing perspectives5 Educational perspectives on ELT: society and the individual;traditional, progressive and transformativePART II6 Language curriculum design: possibilities and realities7 ELT materials: claims, critiques and controversies8 Dealing with the demands of language testing and assessment9 Language teacher education10 New technologies, blended learning and the 'flipped classroom'in ELT11 English for specific purposes12 English for academic purposes13 English for speakers of other languages: language educationand migration14 Bilingual education in a multilingual worldPART III15 Method, methods and methodology: historical trends andcurrent debates16 Communicative language teaching in theory and practice17 Task-based language teaching18 Content and language integrated learning19 Appropriate methodology: towards a cosmopolitan approachPART IV20 Cognitive perspectives on classroom language learning21 Sociocultural theory and the language classroom22 Individual differences23 Motivation24 Learner autonomy25 Primary ELT: issues and trends26 Secondary ELT: issues and trendsPART V27 Corpora in ELT28 Language Awareness29 Teaching language as a system30 Teaching language skills31 Teaching literacy32 Using literature in ELTPART VI33 Complexity and language teaching34 Classroom talk, interaction and collaboration35 Errors, corrective feedback and repair: variations andlearning outcomes36 Questioning 'English-only' classrooms: own-language use in ELT37 Teaching large classes in difficult circumstances38 Computer-mediated communication and language learning39 Values in the ELT classroomIndex