本书是“世界应用语言学名家自选集”丛书中的一本。收录理查兹教授(Jack C.Richards)多年来发表于不同国际学术期刊的文章，时间跨度比较大，凝聚了理查兹教授近四十年来教学与研究的心得，体现了他在本领域所做出的杰出贡献。本书是外语专业教师、研究生不得多得的科研参考资料。

本丛书收录了世界知名应用语言学家的学术论文，是国内首次以国际著名应用语言学家为主线的自选集。入选文章多散见于国陈学术期刊，且时间跨度很大，读者不易寻得。自选集展示了作者在应用语言学方面的研究脉络，汇集成丛书，是应用语言学研究不可多得的资料。本丛书读者对象为英语教师、英语专业研究生、本科生等，可作为其从事科研、撰写论文的参考文献。

本书为理查兹教授(Jack C．Richards)应用语言学研究的论文精选，凝聚了理查兹教授近四十年来教学与研究的心得，体现了他在本领域所做出的杰出贡献。

Preface Ⅰ

Preface Ⅱ

Looking Back: Reflections on a Career in Applied Linguistics

Part 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 Teaching

Part 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 Work

Part 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 Teaching

Part 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)

Postscript

List of Publications