Features excerpts from selected articles that reflect major trends in English language teaching during the past 40 years. The four articles selected here focus on games that motivate students, guidelines for a conversation class, understanding language change, and the humanistic approach. (Author/VWL)

Discusses a survey unit that has been very successful with conversation classes of low-intermediate university English-as-a-foreign-language students. It can easily be adapted for students of various ages and proficiency levels by varying the types of questions as well as class sizes and by changing the number of questions. (Author/VWL)