The book contains a selection of papers reflecting cutting-edge developments in the field of
learning and teaching second and foreign languages. The contributions are devoted to such
issues as classroom-oriented research sociocultural aspects of language acquisition
individual differences in language learning teacher development new strands in second
language acquisition research as well as methodological considerations. Because of its scope
the diversity of topics covered and the adoption of various theoretical perspectives the
volume is of interest not only to theorists and researchers but also to methodologists and
practitioners and can be used in courses for graduate students.
