1 The context of language teaching 1
2 Method:approach,design,and procedure 16
3 The secret life of methods 32
4 A noncontrastive approach to error analysis 46
5 Error analysis,interlanguage,and second language acquisition:a review 62
6 Communicative needs in second-and foreign-language learning 82
7 Answers to yes/no questions 93
8 Speech acts and second—language learning 100
9 Cross—cultural aspects of conversational competence 129
10 The status of grammar in the language curriculum 144
11 Introducing the progressive 158
12 Introducing the perfect:an exercise in pedagogic grammar 170
13 Lexical knowledge and the teaching of vocabulary 176
14 Listening comprehension:approach,design,and procedure 189
References 208
Index 226