CONTEXT AND CULTURE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING. Michael Byram and Peter Grundy (Eds.). Clevedon, UK. Multilingual Matters, 2003. Pp. vi + 106. $39.95 cloth.

This small volume makes connections relating the theory and practice of language teaching to sociopolitical and geopolitical perspectives as well as to a differentiated view of learners and teachers as individuals. The efforts are for the most part very successful, and this volume will be of interest to anyone working in research, pedagogical applications, and theory-building context and culture in language teaching and learning. Eight of the nine articles in the volume had their origin as papers presented at a conference at the University of Durham in June, 2001. The articles address two categories of inquiry: reports of empirical studies of learners, and procedural or methodological contributions with a focus on teachers and teaching.