A comprehensive and extensively researched overview of key issues in
language teaching today. This essential text for English language
teachers surveys a broad range of core topics that are important in
understanding contemporary approaches to teaching English as a second or
international language, and which form the content of many professional
development courses for language teachers. A wide range of issues is
examined, including a consideration of the nature of English in the
world, the way the English teaching profession works, the development of
teaching methods, the nature of classroom teaching, teaching the four
skills, teaching the language system, and elements of a language
program.