Summary

This is a collection of survey articles, the third in a series, which were originally commissioned by and published in the journal Language Teaching. These state-of-the-art surveys provide an authoritative overview of work in key areas of interest to language teachers and applied linguists interested in language teaching. The authors are all acknowledged specialists in their field, and their articles focus on new developments in language learning or language teaching. Subjects covered include: the use of computers, ESP, language planning, the implications of discourse analysis, graded objectives, the effectiveness of communicative language-teaching games, and second-language pronunciation.