'[This book] would constitute a worthwhile acquisition to the library of any institution that is engaged in training language teachers and could merit addition to reading lists in methods courses.' - Modern Language Journal'Norbert Pachler has successfully drawn around him a team of experts, researchers rather than practitioners, whose combined contributions to the compendium provide a hitherto non existent handbook. This collection attempts to and succeeds in characterizing the teaching of modern foreign language teaching at pre-university level.' - Derek Meacher, Language Learning Research