Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-273) and index

Listening / Michael Rost -- Speaking / Martin Bygate -- Reading / Catherine Wallace -- Writing / Joy Reid -- Grammar / Diane Larsen-Freeman -- Vocabulary / Ronald Carter -- Discourse / Michael McCarthy -- Pronunciation / Barbara Seidhofer -- Materials development / Brian Tomlinson -- Second language teacher education / Donald Freeman -- Psycholinguistics / Thomas Scovel -- Second language acquisition / David Nunan -- Bilingualism / Agnes Lam -- Sociolinguistics / Sandra Silberstein -- Computer-assisted language learning / Elizabeth Hanson-Smith -- Observation / Kathleen M. Bailey -- Classroom interaction / Amy Tsui -- English for academic purposes / Liz Hamp-Lyons -- English for specific purposes / Tony Dudley-Evans -- Assessment / Geoff Brindley -- Evaluation / Fred Genesee -- Syllabus design / Michael P. Breen -- Language awareness / Leo von Lier -- Language learning strategies / Rebecca Oxford -- Task-based language learning / Dave Willis and Jane Willis -- Literature in the language classroom / Alan Maley -- Genre / Jennifer Hammond and Beverly Derewianka -- Programme management / Ron White -- Intercultural communication / Claire Kramsch -- On-line communication / Mark Warschauer -- Postscript : the ideology of TESOL / Jack C. Richards

An up-to-date guide to the central areas of applied linguistics and language studies with particular reference to TESOL. It looks at the current state of TESOL as well as at what is likely to happen in the future