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C A M B R I D G E L A N G U A G E T E A C H I N G L I B R A RY
A series covering central issues in language teaching and learning, by authors who have
expert knowledge in their field.
In this series:
Affect in Language Learning edited by Jane Arnold
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching second edition by Jack C. Richards and
Theodore S. Rodgers
Beyond Training by Jack C. Richards
Classroom Decision-Making edited by Michael Breen and Andrew Littlejohn
Collaborative Action Research for English Language Teachers by Anne Burns
Collaborative Language Learning and Teaching edited by David Nunan
Communicative Language Teaching by William Littlewood
Developing Reading Skills by Françoise Grellet
Developments in English for Specific Purposes by Tony Dudley-Evans and Maggie Jo St
John
Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers by Michael McCarthy
Discourse and Language Education by Evelyn Hatch
The Dynamics of the Language Classroom by Ian Tudor
English for Academic Purposes by R. R. Jordan
English for Specific Purposes by Tom Hutchinson and Alan Waters
Establishing Self-Access by David Gardner and Lindsay Miller
Foreign and Second Language Learning by William Littlewood
Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom by Zoltán Dörnyei and Tim Murphey
Language Learning in Distance Education by Cynthia White
Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective edited by Michael Byram and Michael
Fleming
Language Teacher Supervision by Kathleen M. Bailey
The Language Teaching Matrix by Jack C. Richards
Language Test Construction and Evaluation by J. Charles Alderson, Caroline Clapham
and Dianne Wall
Learner-Centredness as Language Education by Ian Tudor
Learners’ Stories edited by Phil Benson and David Nunan
Lessons from Good Language Learners edited by Carol Griffiths
Listening in the Language Classroom by John Field
Managing Curricular Innovation by Numa Markee
Materials Development in Language Teaching edited by Brian Tomlinson
Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom by Zoltán Dörnyei
Psychology for Language Teachers by Marion Williams and Robert L. Burden
Research Methods in Language Learning by David Nunan
Rules, Patterns and Words by Dave Willis
Second Language Teacher Education edited by Jack C. Richards and David Nunan
Society and the Language Classroom edited by Hywel Coleman
Task-Based Language Teaching by David Nunan
Teacher Language Awareness by Stephen Andrews
Teacher Learning in Language Teaching edited by Donald Freeman and Jack C. Richards
Teaching Languages to Young Learners by Lynne Cameron
Testing for Language Teachers second edition by Arthur Hughes
Understanding Research in Second Language Learning by James Dean Brown
Using Surveys in Language Programs by James Dean Brown
Values, Philosophies, and Beliefs in TESOL by Graham Crookes
Vocabulary edited by Norbert Schmitt and Michael McCarthy
Vocabulary, Semantics and Language Education by Evelyn Hatch and Cheryl Brown
Voices from the Language Classroom edited by Kathleen M. Bailey and David Nunan

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