Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The historical ball and chain -- Modern languages: twenty years of change -- The communicative approach to language teaching: an introduction -- The communicative approach and authentic texts -- De l'imparfait du subjonctif aux methodes communicatives: o en est l'enseignement des langues vivantes? -- Communication: sense and nonsense -- Mistakes are the mistake -- Differentiation in the foreign language classroom -- Autonomy in language learning: some theoretical and practical considerations -- Extending opportunities: modern foreign languages for pupils with special educational needs -- Learning, acquiring, remembering and producing language -- Getting pupils talking -- Teaching grammar in the target language -- Why do I have to get it right anyway? -- Raising reading attainment in modern languages -- A la recherche du stylo perdu -- Drama techniques in language teaching -- Approche communicative: un second souffle? -- Role activities in the foreign language classroom -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on sources -- Index.