English Language Teaching in its Social Context

A C I< N 0 W L E D G E M E N T SXi i iRosamond Mitchell and Florence Myles for ‘Second language learning: key concepts andissues’ in Second Language Learning Theories, 1999.David Nunan and ELTjournal for ‘Teaching grammar in context’ in ELTJourna1,Vol. 52, No.2, 1998. Reproduced by permission of ELTjournal and Oxford University Press.Jack Richards and Cambridge University Press for ‘Beyond methods’ in The LanguageTeaching Matrix, 1990.Celia Roberts for ‘Language through acquisition or language socialisation in and throughdiscourse’ in Working Papers zn Apphed Linguistics, Vol. 4, Thames Valley University, 1998.Peter Skehan for ‘Comprehension and production strategies in language learning’ in ACognitiveApproach to Lanpaje Learning by Peter Skehan ( Oxford University Press 1998.)Reproduced by permission of Oxford university Press.Leo van Lier for ‘Constraints and resources in classroom talk: issues of equality andsymmetry’ in Learnmg Foreign and Second Languagec. Reprinted by permission of theModern Language Association of America.While the publishers and editors have madc every effort to contact authors and copyrightholders of works reprinted in Englzhh Language Teaching in its Social Context, this has notbeen possible in every case. They would welcome correspondence from individuals orcompanies they have been unable to trace.We would like to thank the authors who contributed their chapters, as well as colleagueswithin and outsideThe Open University and Macquarie University who gave advice on thecontents. Special thanks arc due to the following people for their assistance in theproduction of this book.Helen Boyce (course manager)Pam Burns and Libby Brill (course ~ecretarics)Liz Freeman (Copublishing)Nanette Reynolds, Frances Wilson and the staff of the Resource Centre of the NationalCentre for English Language Teaching and Research, Macquarie University.Critical readersProfessor Vijay K. Bhatia (Department of English, City University, Hong Kong)Geoff Thompson (Applied English Languagc Studies Unit, Liverpool University, UK)Professor Leo van Lier (Educational Linguistics, University of Monterey, USA).External assessorProfessor Ronald Carter (Department of English Studies, Nottingham University, LIK)Developmental testersIlona Cziraky (Italy)Eladyr Maria Norbert0 da Silva (Brazil)Chitrita Mukerjee (Australia)Dorien Gonzales (UK)Patricia Williams (Denmark).