Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Welcoming remarks / James E. Alatis (Dean, Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics, and Chair, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1991)
  • Some words of greeting / Rita Esquivel (Director, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, U.S. Department of Education)
  • H.G. Widdowson: An introduction / James E. Alatis (Dean, Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Peter D. Strevens, 1922-1989 / In Memoriam
  • The description and prescription of language / H.G. Widdowson (University of London)
  • 'Mistaken constructs': Re-examining the nature and assumptions of language teacher education / Donald Freeman (School for International Training)
  • What can peers provide? / Mary McGroarty (Northern Arizona University)
  • What counts as formal language instruction? Problems in observation and analysis of classroom teaching / Craig Chaudron (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
  • Reflective teachers / Vicki Galloway (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Content knowledge and instructional practice in second language teacher education / Jack C. Richards (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong)
  • Teaching vocabulary: The current word / Edward M. Anthony, Lionel Menasche (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Second culture acquisition / Gail L. Robinson, (San Diego State University)
  • Dangerous liaisons: Pitfalls in second language reading research / Sandra Silberstein (University of Washington)
  • A pedagogy of corporate-level ESP training for international scientists and engineers / Sandra C. Browne (Language Consultant)
  • Perspectives on English for academic purposes / Joan Morley (University of Michigan)
  • Strategic reading / Patricia L. Carrell (University of Akron)
  • The state of the art in teaching pronunciation / Dorothy M. Chun (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Teaching listening: Ends and means / Elizabeth Joiner (University of South Carolina)
  • Teaching language communicatively: An examination of the presentation of phonology to first-year students / Pamela Kaleugher Levac (Georgetown University)
  • Language and communication: A time for equilibrium and integration / Marianne Celce-Murcia (University of California at Los Angeles)
  • Instructional balance: From theories to practices in the teaching of writing / Ann Raimes (Hunter College, City University of New York)
  • Looking at and towards the future in French textbooks / Nadine O'Connor DiVito (Georgetown University)
  • Consensus and divergence on the content, role, and process of teaching grammar / Diane Larsen-Freeman (School for International Training)
  • Writing in foreign language classrooms: Process and reality / L. Kathy Heilenman (University of Iowa)
  • Linguistics, language pedagogy, and teachers' technical cultures / Robert C. Kleinsasser (Memphis State University), Sandra Savignon (University of Illinois at Urbana)
  • Metacognitive strategies in L2 writing: A case for task knowledge / Anita L. Wenden (York College, City University of New York)
  • Social attitudes: The key to directing the evolution of grammar teaching / Sally Sieloff Magnan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Ann, Bert, Carla, Derek, and Oakley's Thesis / Earl W. Stevick (Independent researcher)
  • An analysis of text in video newscasts: A tool for schemata building in listeners / June K. Phillips (Tennessee Foreign Language Institute)
  • In search of a sense of place: The state of the art in language teaching methodology / Heidi Byrnes (Georgetown University)
  • Second-language learning: Engaging, simulating, and converting / Kenneth Chastain (University of Virginia)
  • The shifting sands of bilingual education / Linda Schinke-Llano (Millikin University)
  • Normative language and language use: The separate implications for instructional practices and materials / Janet Swaffar (University of Texas at Austin)
  • X-raying the international funnybone: A study exploring differences in the perception of humor across cultures / Genelle G. Morain (University of Georgia)
  • The Input Hypothesis: An update / Stephen D. Krashen (University of Southern California)
  • Whither accuracy? The state of the art in foreign language testing at the secondary level / Rebecca M. Valette (Boston College)
  • Content-based instruction: A method with many faces / Marguerite Ann Snow (California State University, Los Angeles)
  • Literacy, language, and multiculturalism / JoAnn Crandall (Center for Applied Linguistics)
  • Soviet phraseology: Problems in the analysis and teaching of idioms / Maria Tarasevitch (Moscow State Linguistic University)
  • Shared knowledge / John M. Sinclair (University of Birmingham)
  • Second language teaching in Poland prior to the reform of 1990 / Hanna Komorowska (University of Warsaw)
  • Greek diglossia to Greek dimorphia: A new dilemma for linguists and teachers / Elli Doukanari (Georgetown University)
  • Language awareness: The common ground between linguist and language teacher / Leo van Lier (Monterey Institute of International Studies)
  • The relevance of linguistic theory to language pedagogy: Debunking the myths / Suzanne Flynn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • What can real spoken data teach teachers of English? / Jan Svartvik (Lund University, Sweden)
  • Lexicography and syntax: The state of the art in learner's dictionaries / Flor Aarts (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • Language teaching and learning: Folk linguistics perspectives / Dennis R. Preston (Eastern Michigan University)
  • Metaphors we are healed by: On the use of metaphors in medical language / Maria Ibba (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome).