Editors' Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Table of Contents IX
4. Editors' Introduction 1
5. Tributes
6. For William R. Lee: A Giant in His Field / A Man for All Seasons 7
7. A Leeward Look 9
8. IATEFL and FATEFL, the Trunk and the Branch 11
9. Teaching and teacher training
10. The Proper Study of ELT 21
11. Providing Opportunities for Learning: Teacher Training Experience 29
12. The Importance of Understanding 39
13. Curriculum Design for Teacher Training 45
14. In-Service Teacher Training and Teaching Through Activities A Progress Report from Germany 53
15. The Theologian and the Tightrope Walker 67
16. On Teaching, Training and Learning: Some Reflections and Suggestions 79
17. Research and the Language Teacher: What's the Use? 85
18. Second Language Teaching and One-only Solutions 93
19. Language Study and Language Learning 103
20. Learning and the learner
21. Learning a Foreign Language: the 'Cognitive' Approach 113
22. Learning to Spell in an Anglophone Setting 117
23. Parental Support for Young Learners of English - An Underestimated Contributor to Success 123
24. Let Them Read! - Later. Problems of Introducing Reading and Writing to Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language 131
25. Observations on the Learning Styles of Adult Students 139
26. Teaching Foreign Languages in French Primary Schools: A New Challenge 145
27. Embarrassment in the Classroom 153
28. The Notion of Habit and the Contemporary Language learning/Teaching Paradigm 165
29. Testing or Owls, Pebbles and Fans 175
30. Cognitive Style and Individualization in the EFL Class 185
31. Language and linguistics
32. Practical Problems, Practical Solutions 197
33. Teaching in Key: A Tonal Proposition 203
34. Attitudes of Southern African Linguists towards Languages and Language Policies 213
35. Translation and Functional Sentence Perspective (a Case Study of John 1.1-2) 221
36. A Note on the Vocing of Initial /f-/ in English in the 15th Century: Onomastic Evidence 233
37. The Problem of the *Unable Lexicographer 239
38. The Re-anglicisation of English 243
39. Concepts, Contexts and Meaning: Learning to Learn Vocabulary 247
40. A Study of the Intelligibility of Nigerian English 255
41. Where Have All the Phoneticians Gone? 261
42. Why do French-speakers have difficulty with coming and going? 273
43. Language education and culture
44. Peace Education in the Foreign-Language Classroom: Chances - Challenges - Problems 285
45. Cultural Contexts 293
46. Curriculum Vitae and Select List of Publications 297
47. List of Contributors 306
48. Backmatter 309