Interaction in the Language Curriculum: Awareness, Autonomy and Authenticity

Provides a valuable contribution to the theory of the language education curriculum. It is both timely and topical, exploring key aspects of the current debate on language teaching. It examines the important issues of the learning process, the central concepts of authenticity, motivation and language awareness, exploring each issue from new angles, thus making an actual contribution to the theory. The book also outlines the procedures of new developments in curriculum theory and shows how they can be applied in practice in the language classroom.