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Preface; introduction; part 1: students and staff; 1. Modern languages as a university; who are our students?; 2. Where do they go? Languages and careers; 3. Who teaches them? Professional development in modern languages; part 2: the theory and practice of language teaching; 4. Research into language learning; curriculum design; 5. The four skill and video in language teaching; 6. Teaching grammar; teaching and learning vocabulary; 7. Language testing and assessment; 8. Using the foreign language assistant; 9. Translation and interpreting; part 3: modes and contexts of university language learning; 10. Specialists in other disciplines; 11. Residence abroad; 12. Independent language learning; 13. Open and distance learning in modern languages; 14. Computer-assisted language learning; 15. The internet and computer-mediated communication; 16. Tandem learning in languages; 17. Corpora and concordances; 18. A diverse discipline; 19. Cultural studies; 20. Business studies; 21 linguistics; area studies; literature in modern language programmes useful addresses glossary index