Rod Bolitho is a freelance consultant in English Language Teaching and Education. His most recent book is Continuing Professional Development (with Amol Padwad, 2018: CUP India).Richard Rossner is a freelance author, consultant in language and languages in education and an Eaquals inspector. His most recent book is Language Course Planning (with Brian North, Mila Angelova and Elzbieta Jarosz, 2018: OUP).

• IntroductionChapter 1. The Crucial Role of Language in EducationThis chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at https://zenodo.org/record/8282422Chapter 2.  Changes in Second and Foreign Language Education Chapter 3. The Growing Influence of English in Education              Chapter 4. Initial Language Teacher Education – Traditions, Trends and Relevance             Chapter 5. Language Teachers’ Professional Development           Chapter 6.  Language in Pre-service and In-service Teacher Education for Teachers of all SubjectsChapter 7. The Perspectives of Stakeholders in Language Education         Chapter 8. Policy Making             Chapter 9. Commercial Interests in Language Education Chapter 10. Language in Education, and in Teacher Education: Towards New Paradigms  This chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at https://zenodo.org/record/8282728

Bolitho and Rossner should be congratulated on this well-structured and clearly presented book which showcases the key concepts in language teacher education and will benefit researchers, teachers and students in language education.