Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team ofcontributors, this Handbook is a wide-ranging and invaluablereference guide to language teaching.
* A comprehensive reference work on language teaching, whichcombines the latest research findings, coverage of core topics, andexamples of teaching experience from a variety of languages andsettings
* Provides a unique breadth of coverage, including: thepsycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social,political, and educational contexts; program design; materialswriting and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education;and assessment and evaluation
* Offers a balanced evaluation of the major positions andapproaches, including examining the increasingly important socialand political context of language teaching
* Written by an international and interdisciplinary group ofauthors from a dozen different countries; English is only one ofthe many languages used as examples throughout the volume