"European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz" - t.p.

Foreword

Introduction / David Newby

Section 1: Coordinators and Guest Speakers

The interface between theory and practice / David Newby

‘Expert beyond experience’: Notes on the appropriate use of theory in practice / H.G. Widdowson

The relationship between different languages and their learnability / Peter Bierbaumer

The flow between theory and practice: the teacher’s point of view / Christien Van Gool

How teachers face changes in Latvia / Indra Odina

Linking theory and practice in a Slovakian context /
Maria Kostelnikova

Section 2: Results of the pre-workshop study

The teachers’ questionnaire

The students’ questionnaire

Language Learning and Teaching in Austria / Isabel Landsiedler

Language Learning and Teaching in Germany / Brigitte Jostes

Language Learning and Teaching in Latvia / Aina Kackere

Language Learning and Teaching in Finland / Annikki Koskensalo

Language Learning and Teaching in Slovakia / Gabriela Lojová

Language Learning and Teaching in Bulgaria / Antonia Radkova

Language Learning and Teaching in Norway / Renée Waara

Language Learning and Teaching in Malta / Marjes Zammit, Charles Mifsud

Section 3: Projects and Research

Language courses and Self Access Language Learning for adults: A new way of Language Learning in Adult Education in Austria / Elisabeth Allgäuer-Hackl, Austria

Autonomy of the learner and the teacher in French as a foreign language / Bernard André, France

Teachers Write about their Professional Growth / Nida Burneikaite, Lithuania

Language learning via CD-Rom – old wine in new bottles / Martin Kaltenbacher, Austria

Innovation in foreign language teaching based on applications for the European Label for Innovative Projects in Language Teaching and Learning in Austria between 1998 and 2000 / Bernhard Kettemann, Austria

Johnson’s model of foreign language grammar learning applied in Slovak secondary schools / Gabriela Lojová, Slovakia

Interdisciplinary cooperation in pre-service English language teacher training programmes / Barbara Mehlmauer-Larcher, Austria

French for Specific Purposes: One-size or tailor-made courses? / Christine Noe, Austria

Two INSET projects: Spanish as a Second Language and English as a Foreign Language / Fernando Trujillo Sáez, Spain

"[...] The overall aim of this project was to explore the interface between different types of theory and actual classroom practice and to consider what measures could be taken to optimise the mutual flow between theory and practice in the context of foreign language teaching. [...]" (Book Cover)