| Welcoming remarks | 1 | |
| Some words of greeting | 5 | |
| H. G. Widdowson: An introduction | 9 | |
| Peter D. Strevens, 1922-1989 / In Memoriam | 10 | |
| The description and prescription of language | 11 | |
| 'Mistaken constructs': Re-examining the nature and assumptions of language teacher education | 25 | |
| What can peers provide? | 40 | |
| What counts as formal language instruction? Problems in observation and analysis of classroom teaching | 56 | |
| Reflective teachers | 65 | |
| Content knowledge and instructional practice in second language teacher education | 76 | |
| Teaching vocabulary: The current word | 100 | |
| Second culture acquisition | 114 | |
| Dangerous liaisons: Pitfalls in second language reading research | 123 | |
| A pedagogy of corporate-level ESP training for international scientists and engineers | 131 | |
| Perspectives on English for academic purposes | 143 | |
| Strategic reading | 167 | |
| The state of the art in teaching pronunciation | 179 | |
| Teaching listening: Ends and means | 194 | |
| Teaching language communicatively: An examination of the presentation of phonology to first-year students | 215 | |
| Language and communication: A time for equilibrium and integration | 223 | |
| Instructional balance: From theories to practices in the teaching of writing | 238 | |
| Looking at and towards the future in French textbooks | 250 | |
| Consensus and divergence on the content, role, and process of teaching grammar | 260 | |
| Writing in foreign language classrooms: Process and reality | 273 | |
| Linguistics, language pedagogy, and teachers' technical cultures | 289 | |
| Metacognitive strategies in L2 writing: A case for task knowledge | 302 | |
| Social attitudes: The key to directing the evolution of grammar teaching | 323 | |
| Ann, Bert, Carla, Derek, and Oakley's Thesis | 335 | |
| An analysis of text in video newscasts: A tool for schemata building in listeners | 343 | |
| In search of a sense of place: The state of the art in language teaching methodology | 355 | |
| Second-language learning: Engaging, simulating, and converting | 368 | |
| The shifting sands of bilingual education | 379 | |
| Normative language and language use: The separate implications for instructional practices and materials | 386 | |
| X-raying the international funnybone: A study exploring differences in the perception of humor across cultures | 397 | |
| The Input Hypothesis: An update | 409 | |
| Whither accuracy? The state of the art in foreign language testing at the secondary level | 432 | |
| Content-based instruction: A method with many faces | 461 | |
| Literacy, language, and multiculturalism | 471 | |
| Soviet phraseology: Problems in the analysis and teaching of idioms | 484 | |
| Shared knowledge | 489 | |
| Second language teaching in Poland prior to the reform of 1990 | 501 | |
| Greek diglossia to Greek dimorphia: A new dilemma for linguists and teachers | 509 | |
| Language awareness: The common ground between linguist and language teacher | 528 | |
| The relevance of linguistic theory to language pedagogy: Debunking the myths | 547 | |
| What can real spoken data teach teachers of English? | 555 | |
| Lexicography and syntax: The state of the art in learner's dictionaries | 567 | |
| Language teaching and learning: Folk linguistics perspectives | 583 | |
| Metaphors we are healed by: On the use of metaphors in medical language | 603 |
