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Acknowledgements
Section 1: Survey
Part I - Contexts: Framing the issues - contexts, communities, and method
Chapter 1 ‘Method’, methods, and postmethod: initial questions, perspectives, and possibilities
Chapter 2 Locating language teaching: contexts, cultures, and cognition
Part II - Concepts: Methods past, present, and future - histories, critiques, and alternatives
Chapter 3 A profusion of methods: progress, ‘products of their times’, and the ‘procession of methods’ narratives
Chapter 4 Beyond method … to postmethod? Critiques, alternative accounts, and local realities
Part III - Debates: Methods and methodologies, theories, and practices - questions, possibilities, and classroom realities
Chapter 5 ‘Language’, ‘language learning’, and the language classroom: theoretical insights and practical implications
Chapter 6 Language teaching in practice: pedagogical debates, possibilities, and realities
Section 2: Further reading
Section 3: Glossary
References
Biography
Graham Hall is Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action (2011; 2nd edition, 2017), which was the winner of the 2012 British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) book prize. He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching (2016) and was editor of the ELT Journal from 2013−2017.
