The Global Scope and Politics of ELT: Critiquing Current Policies and Programs -- Introduction: The Global Scope and Politics of ELT: Critiquing Current Policies and Programs -- ELT and Colonialism -- Ideology, Language Varieties, and ELT -- Tensions Between English and Mother Tongue Teaching in Post-Colonial Africa -- A Critical Discussion of the English-Vernacular Divide in India -- ELT Policy Directions in Multilingual Japan -- English Language Teaching in Korea -- The National Curriculum Changes and Their Effects on English Language Teaching in the People's Republic of China -- ELT and Bilingual Education in Argentina -- English, No Longer a Foreign Language in Europe? -- Common Property: English as a Lingua Franca in Europe -- Teaching English as a Third Language -- Protecting English in an Anglophone Age -- Adult Immigrant ESL Programs in Canada -- Focus on Literacy -- Methods, Meanings and Education Policy in the United States -- The Goals and Focus of the ELT Program: Problematizing Content and Pedagogy -- Introduction: The Goals and Focus of the ELT Program: Problematizing Content and Pedagogy -- The Goals of ELT -- Integrating School-Aged ESL Learners into the Mainstream Curriculum -- Communicative Language Teaching -- Language Instruction Through Tasks -- Knowledge Structures in Social Practices -- Accelerating Academic Achievement of English Language Learners -- Predicting Second Language Academic Success in English Using the Prism Model -- Four Keys for School Success for Elementary English Learners -- Collaborating in ESL Education in Schools -- Organization of English Teaching in International Schools -- English for Specific Purposes -- An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Adults English in the Workplace -- Assessment and Evaluation in ELT: Shifting Paradigms and Practices -- Introduction: Assessment and Evaluation in ELT: Shifting Paradigms and Practices -- Standards-Based Approaches to the Evaluation of ESL Instruction -- The Standards Movement and ELT for School-Aged Learners -- High-Stakes Testing and Assessment -- New Directions in Testing English Language Proficiency for University Entrance -- The Impact of Testing Practices on Teaching -- Classroom-Based Assessment: Possibilities and Pitfalls -- The Power of Language Tests, The Power of the English Language and the Role of ELT -- Different Definitions of Language and Language Learning -- The Learner and the Learning Environment: Creating New Communities -- Introduction: The Learner and the Learning Environment: Creating New Communities -- ESL Learners in the Early School Years -- The Adolescent English Language Learner -- What about the Students? English Language Learners in Postsecondary Settings -- Imagined Communities, Identity, and English Language Learning -- Academic Achievement and Social Identity Among Bilingual Students in the U.S. -- Sociocultural Theory -- Mediating Academic Language Learning Through Classroom Discourse -- Creating a Motivating Classroom Environment -- Autonomy and Its Role in Learning -- Creating a Technology-Rich English Language Learning Environment -- The Internet and English Language Learning -- Constructs of Language in ELT: Breaking the Boundaries -- Introduction: Constructs of Language in ELT: Breaking the Boundaries -- Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language and Its Acquisition -- Academic Language -- Teaching Implications of L2 Phonology Research -- Current Perspectives on Vocabulary Teaching and Learning -- Changing Approaches to the Conceptualization and Teaching of Grammar -- Extending Our Understanding of Spoken Discourse -- New Directions in Student Academic Writing -- From Literacy to Multiliteracies in ELT -- Technology and Writing -- Multimodal Pedagogies, Representation and Identity: Perspectives from Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Approaches to Genre in ELT -- Researching and Developing Teacher Language Awareness -- Research and Teacher Education in ELT: Meeting New Challenges -- Introduction: Research and Teacher Education in ELT: Meeting New Challenges -- Qualitative Approaches to Classroom Research with English Language Learners -- Action Research -- Narrative Inquiry and ELT Research -- Conversation Analysis: Issues and Problems -- Poststructuralism and Applied Linguistics -- What Shapes Teachers' Professional Development? -- Appropriating Uncertainty -- Teacher Education for Linguistically Diverse Communities, Schools, and Classrooms -- Challenges and Opportunities for the Teaching Profession -- Teachers' Roles in the Global Hypermedia Environment -- Preparing Teachers for Technology-Supported ELT.