This book contains eleven articles by leading authorities in the fields of language teaching and linguistics, which provide a critical overview of recent work in the following areas:
-Factors affecting foreign-language learning
-Discourse analysis
-Sociolinguistics and ‘competence’
-Error analysis
-Translation
-Language for adults
-Child language development
-Grammatical theories and language teaching
-Foreign languages for younger children
-Teaching advanced reading skills
-Special-purpose language learning.