Note: 'Language Assessment' provides teachers with a clear presentation of the essentials for assessing second language learning fairly and effectively. This updated second edition includes new research and information on standardized tests, a new chapter on form-focused assessment, and a concise glossary of terms.
TOC:

• Getting started
• A "methodical" history of language teaching
• The postmethod era: toward informed approaches
• Teaching by principles
• Intrinsic motivation in the classroom
• Teaching across age levels
• Teaching across proficiency levels
• Sociocultural, political, and institutional contexts
• Curriculum design
• Lesson planning
• Techniques and materials
• Technology in the classroom
• Initiating interaction in the classroom
• Sustaining interaction through group work
• Classroom management
• Strategies-based instruction
• Integrating the "four skills"
• Teaching listening
• Teaching speaking
• Teaching reading
• Teaching writing
• Form-focused instruction
• Language assessment: principles and issues
• Classroom-based assessment
• Teacher development
• Teachers for social responsibility.