The Handbook of Language Teaching [Paperback]

• 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
  
• 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
  
• Offers a balanced evaluation of the major positions and approaches, including examining the increasingly important social and political context of language teaching
  
• 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

Part I Overview.

1 Language Teaching (Michael H. Long).

Part II Social, Political, and Educational Contexts of Language Teaching.

2 The Social and Sociolinguistic Contexts of Language Learning and Teaching (Sandra Lee McKay and Rani Rubdy).

3 The Politics and Policies of Language and Language Teaching (Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas).

4 History of Language Teaching (Diane Musumeci).

Part III Psycholinguistic Underpinnings of Language LealÂ