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.