Brings together various approaches to the contextualized teaching of grammar & communicative skills as integrated components of second-language instruction. Purpose of the text is to show that grammar teaching can be productive & useful in ESL classroom

Contents: Preface. E. Hinkel, S. Fotos, From Theory to Practice: A Teacher's View. Part I: Grammar in Language Teaching.R. Ellis, The Place of Grammar Instruction in the Second/Foreign Language Curriculum. J.C. Richards, Accuracy and Fluency Revisited. M. McCarthy, R. Carter, Ten Criteria for a Spoken Grammar. M.C. Pennington, Grammar and Communication: New Directions in Theory and Practice. Part II: Classroom Approaches to Grammar Teaching.D. Larsen-Freeman, The Grammar of Choice. M. Celce-Murcia, Why It Makes Sense to Teach Grammar in Context and Through Discourse. S. Fotos, Structure-Based Interactive Tasks for the EFL Grammar Learner. R. Ellis, Methodological Options in Grammar Teaching Materials. E. Hinkel, Grammar Teaching in Writing Classes: Tenses and Cohesion. Part III: Research on Grammar Structures.P. Master, Relative Clause Reduction in Technical Research Articles. E. Hinkel, Why English Passive Is Difficult to Teach (and Learn).