Handbook of foreign language communication and learning / edited by Karlfried Knapp, Barbara Seidlhofer ; in cooperation with Henry Widdowson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the handbook series / Karlfried Knapp and Gerd Antos --Acknowledgements -- Developing foreign language communication : principles and practices / Karlfried Knapp, Barbara Seidlhofer, and Henry Widdowson -- The nature of foreign language learning -- What makes a language foreign? / Konrad Ehlich -- Multilingualism and foreign language teaching / Antje Wilton -- Foreign language teaching and educational policy / Rosamond Mitchell -- Learning and teaching multiple languages / Britta Hufeisen and Ulrike Jessner -- Developing links between second language acquisition and foreign language teaching / Vivian Cook -- Language awareness / Willis Edmondson -- Perspectives on foreign language learning and teaching -- The linguistic perspective / Henry Widdowson -- Cultural perspectives on language learning and teaching / Claire Kramsch -- The political perspective / Janina Brutt-Griffler -- The cognitive perspective : age effects and/or critical periods? / Jean-Marc Dewaele -- The design of foreign language teaching -- Foreign language course design / Keith Johnson and Helen Johnson -- The methodology of foreign language teaching / Theodore Rodgers -- Autonomous language learning / Lienhard Legenhausen -- Teaching the spoken foreign language / Martin Bygate -- Teaching the written foreign language / Bill Grabe and Fredricka Stoller -- Approaches to foreign language teaching -- The principles of approach / Anthony Howatt -- Communicative language teaching / Michael Byram and Mari-Carmen Mendez -- Language for specific purposes vs. general language / Claus Gnutzmann -- Content and language integrated teaching / Dieter Wolff -- Computer assisted foreign language learning / Kurt Kohn -- Evaluation in language learning and teaching -- Principles of testing and assessment / Tim McNamara -- Issues in certification / Annelie Knapp -- Evaluating curricula, courses and textbooks / Pauline Rea-Dickens and Richard Kiely.

This volume focuses on how far the policies, principles and practices of foreign language teaching and learning are, or can be, informed by theoretical considerations and empirical findings from the linguistic disciplines. Part I deals with the nature of foreign language learning in general, while Part II explores issues arising from linguistic, socio-political, cultural and cognitive perspectives. Part III and IV then consider the different factors that have to be taken into account in designing the foreign language subject and the various approaches to pedagogy that have been proposed. Part.

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