Provides a valuable contribution to the theory of the language education curriculum. It is both timely and topical, exploring key aspects of the current debate on language teaching. It examines the important issues of the learning process, the central concepts of authenticity, motivation and language awareness, exploring each issue from new angles, thus making an actual contribution to the theory. The book also outlines the procedures of new developments in curriculum theory and shows how they can be applied in practice in the language classroom.

1. The AAA curriculum
2. The curriculum as a theory of practice
3. The growth of proficiency
4. Language awareness and learning to learn
5. Motivation, autonomy, and achievement
6. Authenticity
7. Contingency
8. The curriculum as interaction
9. The profession of teaching development and research
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Leo van Lier is Professor of Educational Linguistics at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA.