Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this "Handbook" is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching. A comprehensive reference work on language teaching, which combines the latest research findings, coverage of core topics, and examples of teaching experience from a variety of languages and settingsProvides a unique breadth of coverage, including: the psycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social, political, and educational contexts; program design; materials writing and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education; and assessment and evaluationOffers a balanced evaluation of the major positions and approaches, including examining the increasingly important social and political context of language teachingWritten by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors from a dozen different countries; English is only one of the many languages used as examples throughout the volume