Contains an index and a citation index.

Bibliography: p. 369-396.

Introduction

PART ONE: Policy and Practice

1. Language teaching analysis

2. Managing the second language curriculum

PART TWO: Defining Objectives

3. Language teaching objectives

PART THREE: Content Options

4. The language syllabus: pronunciation

5. The language syllabus: grammar

6. The language syllabus: functional analysis

7. The communicative activities syllabus

8.The cultural syllabus

9. The general language education syllabus

PART FOUR: Teaching Strategies

10. The intralingual - crosslingual dimension

11. The analytic - experiential dimension

12. The explicit - implicit dimension

Conclusion

Bibliography and citation index

Index

"This book analyses current issues in language teaching practice; defines the parameters within which practitioners have to make choices; and identifies controversial questions and areas which require empirical research.

Issues and Options discusses implications for the second language curriculum of the applied linguistics theory that is covered in Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching. The book is divided into four parts and twelve chapters with an introduction and a conclusion. The subjects treated in each part are as follows: Policy and Practice provides discussion of language teaching analysis and the processes of curriculum development, implementation, evaluation, and research. Defining Objectives provides discussion of language teaching, and focuses on the four objectives of language proficiency, knowledge, affect, and transfer. Content Options deals with four main content areas: target language, target culture, communicative activities, and general language education. Teaching Strategies presents a discussion of instructional options based on the following dimensions: intralingual-crosslingual, analytic-experiential, and explicit-implicit." (Book Cover)