Unit I. Questioning the Nature of Methods
1. Problems, Prescriptions, and Paradoxes in Second Language Teaching / Mark A. Clarke and Sandra Silberstein
2. Teachers' and Students' Lessons / Adrian Holliday
3. Classroom Interaction Patterns: Reflections of a Stratified Society / Cathy M. Roller
4. Concept of Method, Interested Knowledge, and the Politics of Language Teaching / Alastair Pennycook
Unit II. Seeing the Classroom
5. "Let's See": Contrasting Conversations About Teaching / John F. Fanselow
6. Gender and Ethnicity as Factors in the Development of Verbal Skills in Bilingual Mexican American Women / Kay M. Losey
7. ESL Versus Mainstream Classes: Contrasting L2 Learning Environments / Linda Harklau
8. Remediation as Social Construct: Perspectives from an Analysis of Classroom Discourse / Glynda Hull, Mike Rose and Kay Losey Fraser / [et al.]
9. Observing the Second Language Learner: An Example of Teachers' Learning / Celia Genishi
Unit III. Theories into Practice: Promoting Language Acquisition
10. Theory Versus Practice in Language Training / Stephen Krashen
11. Recent Language Research and Some Language Teaching Principles / Karl Krahnke and Mary Ann Christison
12. On the Nature of Technique: What Do We Owe the Gurus? / Mark A. Clarke
13. What Is a Participatory Approach to Curriculum Development? / Elsa Roberts Auerbach
Unit IV. Theories into Practice: Keeping Language Meaningful
14. Classroom: A Good Environment for Language Learning / Judith Wells Lindfors
15. "Teaching" English Through Content-Area Activities / Sarah Hudelson
16. From the Margins to the Center / Vivian Zamel
17. Participatory Literacy Education Behind Bars: AIDS Opens the Door / Kathy Boudin
Unit V. Questioning Assumptions About Language and Identity
18. Ownership of English / H. G. Widdowson
19. Language Identity and Language Ownership: Linguistic Conflicts of First-Year University Writing Students / Yuel-Sim D. Chiang and Mary Schmida
20. ESL and the Colonial Legacy: A Teacher Faces Her 'Missionary Kid' Past / Stephanie Vandrick
21. Language We Know / Simon J. Ortiz
22. Mother Tongue / Amy Tan.
