Preface ⅠPreface ⅡLooking Back: Reflections on a Career in Applied LinguisticsPart 1 State-of-the-art Essays Growing up with TESOL: A Personal Reflection Communicative Language Teaching Today Second Language Teacher Education Today Speech Acts and Second Language Learning(with Richard W. Schmidt) Language Transfer and Conversational Competence(with Mayuri Sukwiwat)Part 2 Curriculum, Methods and Materials Language Curriculum Development Method: Approach, Design, and Procedure(with Ted Rodgers) The Secret Life of Methods Beyond Methods The Status of Grammar in the Language Curriculum Textbooks: Help or Hindrance in Teaching? Materials Development and Research--Making the Connection The Role of Vocabulary TeachingPart 3 Teaching Listening, Speaking and Reading Teaching Listening and Speaking: From Theory to Practice Listening Comprebension: Approach, Design, Procedure The Effect of Discourse Markers on the Comprehension of Lectures (with Craig Chaudron) Conversational Competence through Role Play Activities A Profile of an Effective Reading Teacher Addressing the Grammar Gap in Task WorkPart 4 Understanding the Nature of Language Teaching Teachers' Maxims in Language Teaching Exploring Teachers' Beliefs and the Processes of Change(with Patrick B. Gallo and Willy A. Renandya) Teacher Beliefs and Decision Making What's the Use of Lesson Plans? Exploring Pedagogical Reasoning Skills(with Benjamin Li and Angela Tang) Learning How to Teach in the RSA Cert(with Belinda Ho and Karen Giblin) Competence and Performance in Language TeachingPart 5 The Second-language Teacher Development Program Beyond Training: Approaches to Teacher Education in Language Teaching Content Knowledge and Instructional Practice in Second Language Teacher Education Conceptions of Teaching and the Education of Second Language Teachers (with Donald Freeman) The First Year of Teaching ( with Martha Pennington) Teaching and Learning in the Language Teacher Education Course Room: A Critical Sociocultural Perspective(with Gurmit Singh)PostscriptList of Publications