A history of English Language Teaching that takes the reader from the Renaissance to the present day.

The book covers all the important phases of the history from a global perspective. It has been brought up-to-date with three new chapters, including a final chapter by Henry Widdowson.

Key features
Substantially revised and updated.
New Introduction.
New sections on the British Empire, and 1970-present day.

This book develops a rational approach to the teaching of language as communication, based on a careful consideration of the nature of language and of the language user's activities. It will stimulate all language teachers to investigate the ideas that inform their own practice.

This volume critically reviews the most prominent issues in language teaching today and relates them to general perspectives on the nature of language and of language teaching and learning.

This study takes a perspective on the nature of poetry and follows it through to a proposal for teaching poetry. Its principles are then put into practice through a demonstration of classroom procedures using original poems writing.

This book goes back to basics by investigating fundamental assumptions about the way English should be defined and taught as a school subject. It looks at different attitudes to English, and developments in its description, and it critically examines current proposals for the specification of course content and classroom methodology, with particular reference to ideas about authenticity and task-based learning.