This is an excellent book - comprehensive, thorough, balanced, clearly presented, well-informed and up-to-date...it is the most thorough and balanced account of language teacher education that I have read.Mike Wallace, University of Edinburgh, UK...promises to be rewarding for teachers in training and those responsible for training them...also of considerable value to individual teachers, or indeed groups of teachers, who wish to take a little time to think about what they are doing, why they are doing it and what they might like to consider doing differently in the future.Martin von Schilling