Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

The intended audience of this volume is a “teacher educator ” interested in developing a repertoire of language teaching methods. The preface argues that training in methodologies, though certainly not without its critics (e.g. Hinkel, 2006; Rajagopalan, 2007), is useful to language teachers. The authors define the “techniques ” in the volume’s title as the methods or actions teachers carry out in the classroom, and the “principles ” as the thoughts (beliefs, attitudes, values, and awareness) of teachers that guide those actions. The techniques and principles must be connected and coherent for a language teacher to be successful