Teaching and Learning a Second Language: A Review of Recent Research (Continuum Studies in Research in Education)

There is increasingly wide agreement among teachers, researchers, inspectors, advisers and policy-makers that both teaching and research will benefit from being brought closer together. But how can this be achieved? Hard-pressed practitioners cannot be expected to review a constant flow of conference papers, journals and other publications, even if such items were accessibly written. This title synthesizes relevant research findings for the professional practitioner and highlights their implications for the quality of teaching and learning.

Dr Ernesto Macaro is Lecturer in Modern Language Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Oxford.