English language teaching in its social context : a reader / edited by Christopher N. Candlin and Neil Mercer.

"[Published] in association with Macquarie University and the Open University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. How Is Language Learning Explained? -- 1. Second Language Learning: Key Concepts and Issues -- 2. Factors Affecting Second Language Learning -- 3. Second Language Acquisition: Research and Language Pedagogy -- 4. Comprehension and Production Strategies in Language Learning -- 5. Constraints and Resources in Classroom Talk: Issues of Equality and Symmetry -- 6. Language Acquisition or Language Socialisation in and through Discourse? Towards a Redefinition of the Domain of SLA -- 7. The Social Context for Language Learning: a Neglected Situation? -- Pt. 2. Strategies and Goals in the Classroom Context -- 8. The Development of EFL Methodology -- 9. Beyond Methods -- 10. Focus on Form: A Design Feature in Language Teaching Methodology -- 11. Teaching Grammar in Context -- 12. Genre-Based Approaches to Writing and Beginning Adult ESL Learners -- 13. Critical Ethnography of a Sri Lankan Classroom: Ambiguities in Student Opposition to Reproduction through ESOL -- 14. Safe-Talk: Collusion in Apartheid Education -- Pt. 3. Analysing teaching and learning -- 15. Language for Teaching a Language -- 16. Learning a New Register in a Second Language -- 17. Doing-English-Lessons in the Reproduction or Transformation of Social Worlds? -- 18. Evaluation of Classroom Interaction -- 19. Navigating the Discourse: On What Is Learned in the Language Classroom -- 20. Recording and Transcribing Talk in Educational Settings -- Index.