The Handbook of Language Teaching

Michael H. Long (Editor), Catherine J. Doughty (Editor)

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5489-5

Hardcover

824 pages

July 2009, Wiley-Blackwell

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Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this Handbook is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching.

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