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Professor Stern puts applied linguistics research into its historical and interdisciplinary perspective. He gives an authoritative survey of past developments worldwide and establishes a set of guidelines for the future. There are six parts: Clearing the Ground, Historical Perspectives, Concepts of Language, Concepts of Society, Concepts of Language Learning, and Concepts of Language Teaching.

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• Introduction
• Part 1 Clearing the ground
• 1 Talking about language teaching
• 2 Theory and practice
• 3 Towards a conceptual framework
• 4 Research
• Part 2 Historical perspectives
• 5 Approaches and studies
• 6 A sketch of recent and current trends: 1880-1980
• Part 3 Concepts of language
• 7 Trends in linguistic theory
• 8 Linguistic theory and language teaching: emergence of a relationship
• 9 Linguistic theory and language teaching: reassessment and current status
• Part 4 Concepts of society
• 10 Society, culture, and language
• 11 Aspects of sociolinguistics
• 12 The social sciences and the second language curriculum
• 13 The sociology of language teaching and learning
• Part 5 Concepts of language learning
• 14 Psychological approaches to language and learning
• 15 Development of a psychological perspective in language teaching: a selective review
• 16 Models of second language learning and the concept of proficiency
• 17 Learner factors
• 18 Conditions of learning and the learning process
• Part 6 Concepts of language teaching
• 19 The study of education and its relevance to language teaching
• 20 Language teaching theories as theories of teaching method
• 21 The break with the method concept
• 22 An educational interpretation of language teaching
• Conclusion
• Bibliography and citation index
• Index

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H H Stern was Head of the Modern Language Centre at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education from 1998 to 1981 and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Curriculum at the same Institute from 1981 to 1987.