1: Faith, guilt and doing the right thing. Theory applied and theory discovered. - 2: Into the inner sanctum: Teachers and terminology. - 3: On the inside looking in: Collaborative classroom research. - 4: Learning to speak or speaking to learn? The role of mistakes in spoken English. - 5: Breaking the sound barrier: Aspects of pronunciation teaching. - 6: The glamour of grammar and the brass tacks of syntax: Some views of the significance of grammar. - 7: What´s in a word? Some approaches to teaching, learning and remembering vocabulary. - 8: Scanning the horizon: Reflections on reading in a foreign language. - 9: Hear and now: Listening in the teaching writing. - 10: Write on: Some thoughts on teaching writing. - 11: Soft chairs and silence: Humanistic approaches. - 12: Ten years' experience or one year experienced ten times? Looking back and looking forward.