The Handbook of Language Teaching

Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this <i>Handbook</i> is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching. <br /> <ul> <li>A comprehensive reference work on language teaching, which combines the latest research findings, coverage of core topics, and examples of teaching experience from a variety of languages and settings<br /> </li> <li>Provides a unique breadth of coverage, including: the psycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social, political, and educational contexts; program design; materials writing and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education; and assessment and evaluation<br /> </li> <li>Offers a balanced evaluation of the major positions and approaches, including examining the increasingly important social and political context of language teaching<br /> </li> <li>Written by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors from a dozen different countries; English is only one of the many languages used as examples throughout the volume</li> </ul>