Also known as "The Apple Book", is an anthology book; personal contributions from more than forty acknowledged specialists in the field provide a variety of perspectives. This third edition covers more topics and has more contributors than the previous ones. As the editor states, "sixteen of the chapters appearing in this third edition are revised and updated versions of chapters in the second editionand the revisions have been substantial. . . ten chapters have been completely rewritten and the remaining ten chaptersappear for the first time in this edition" (vii). All this contributions primarily are focused on the learner, but none of them avoids the fact of socio-cultural, socio-political and sociolinguistic influences (such as increased globalization and the development of "world Englishes") which will cause them to reconsider long-held views about language and language teaching.
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