This handbook deals with all aspects of contemporary language teaching and its history. Produced for language teaching professionals, it is also useful as a reference work for academic studies at postgraduate level.

Dedication. List of illustrations. Editorial board. List of contributors. Introduction to the second edition. Acknowledgements. Entries A-Z. Index

Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus in the School of Education at the University of Durham, UK.

Adelheid Hu is Professor for Multilingual Learning and Literacies at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.