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• Part I. Approaches to Teaching: 1. English language teaching in the post-methods era: towards better diagnosis, treatment, and assessment, H. Douglas Brown; 2. Theories of teaching in language teaching, Jack C. Richards; Part II. Lesson Planning and Classroom Management: 3. Lesson planning, Thomas S. C. Farrell; 4. Classroom management, Marilyn Lewis; Part III. Classroom Dynamics: 5. Implementing cooperative learning, George M. Jacobs and Stephen Hall; 6. Mixed level teaching: tiered tasks and bias tasks, Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter; Part IV. Syllabus Design and Instructional Materials: 7. The ELT curriculum: a flexible model for a changing world, Denise Finney; 8. The role of materials in the language classroom: finding the balance, Jane Crawford; Part V. Task and Project Work: 9. Implementing task-based language teaching, David Beglar and Alan Hunt; 10. Project work: a means to promote language and content, Fredricka L. Stoller; Part VI. Learning Strategies: 11. Language learning strategies in a nutshell: update and ESL suggestions, Rebecca L. Oxford; 12. Learner strategy training in the classroom: an action research study, David Nunan; Part VII. Teaching Grammar: 13. Seven bad reasons for teaching grammar...and two good ones, Michael Swan; 14. Addressing the grammar-gap in task-work, Jack C. Richards; 15. Grammar teaching--practice or consciousness-raising, Rod Ellis; Part VIII. Teaching Pronunciation: 16. Beyond listen and repeat : pronunciation teaching materials and theories of second language acquisition, Rodney H. Jones; 17. It's not what you say but how you say it!, Julie Hebert; Part IX. Teaching speaking: 18. Factors to consider: developing adult EFL students' speaking abilities, Kang Shumin; 19. Conversational English: an interactive, collaborative and reflective approach, Wai King Tsang and Matilda Wong; 20. Developing discussion skills in the ESL classroom, Christopher F. Green, Elsie R. Christopher and Jacqueline Lam; Part X. Teaching Listening: 21. Listening in language learning, David Nunan; 22. The changing face of listening, John Field; 23. Raising students' awareness of the features of real-world listening input, Wendy Y.K. Lam; Part XI. Teaching Vocabulary: 24. Current research and practice in teaching vocabulary, Alan Hunt and David Beglar; 25. Best practice in vocabulary teaching and learning, Paul Nation; Part XII. Teaching reading: 26. Dilemmas for the development of second language reading abilities, William Grabe; 27. Teaching strategic reading, Joy Janzen; 28. Extensive reading: why aren't we all doing it? Willy A. Renandya and George M. Jacobs; Part XIII. Teaching Writing: 29. Ten steps in planning a writing course and training teachers of writing, Ann Raimes; 30. The writing process and process writing, Anthony Seow; 31. A genre-based approach to content writing instruction, Randi Reppen; 32. Teaching students to self-edit, Dana Ferris; Part XIV. Assessment: 33. Alternative assessment: responses to commonly asked questions, Anna Huerta-Marcias; 34. Non-traditional forms of assessment and response to student writing: a step towards learner autonomy, Andrea H. Penaflorida; 35. English proficiency test: the oral component of a primary school, Ishbel Hingle and Viv Linington; Part XV. Technologies in the Classroom: 36. Video in the ELT classroom: the role of the teacher, Susan Stempleski; 37. The internet for English teaching: guidelines for teachers, Mark Warschauer and P. Fawn Whittaker; 38. What can the World Wide Web offer ESL teachers? Rong-Chang Li and Robert S. Hart; Part XVI. Professional Development: 39. The English teacher as professional, Penny Ur; 40. Developing our professional competence: some reflections, Joanne Pettis; 41. Research in your own classroom, Elizabeth Taylor.