This is the first comprehensive overview of language awareness, comprising up-to-date reviews of both established and innovative themes by experts and organized around the 3 different perspectives of language awareness: language teaching & teachers; language learning & learners; and areas less directly concerned with language instruction. "This volume encapsulates all that is best about language awareness. It provides valuable perspectives on the history of the subject and each chapter brims with insights that carry the subject forward. Across so many areas of human activity the volume underlines the centrality of language awareness to our thinking, teaching, learning and social life, to the ways in which power and control are exercised and to our better understanding of the complex relationships between languages and cultures. This is an indispensable resource for students and researchers across many different disciplines."
Ronald Carter, Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, UK