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RR 2001/378 Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning Edited by Michael Byram Routledge London and New York, NY 2000 xx+714pp. ISBN 0 415 12085 3 L99.00
Keywords Language, Teaching, Learning
Need for greater cross-cultural understanding and the exigencies of mass communication have sparked a surge of interest in foreign language teaching and learning. Multiple skills and diverse methods are applied to this increasingly important, complex task. Degree of success varies dramatically and inexplicably country to country.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning authoritatively surveys the theory and practice, and the history, of contemporary language teaching. Themes covered include methods and materials; assessment and testing; contexts and concepts; influential figures; related disciplines, such as psychology, anthropology, sociolinguistics. It devotes particular attention to systems and organisation of foreign language teaching and learning in Africa, Australia, Canada, Central and Eastern Europe, China, France, India, Japan, United States of America, and assesses in depth the controversial Common European Framework. Languages selected for...