This two-volume handbook provides a comprehensive examination of policy, practice, research, and theory related to English language teaching (ELT) in international contexts. Nearly 70 chapters highlight the research foundation for the best practices, frameworks for policy decisions, and areas of consensus and controversy in the teaching and development of English as a second and/or additional language for kindergarten through to adult speakers of languages other than English. In doing so it problematizes traditional dichotomies and challenges the very terms that provide the traditional...

EM Faustus is back... and angry as Hell. Nothing new there then. Faustus wanted a nice simple Missing Persons case. What he got was acting as bodyguard to an eleven year old girl, protecting her from killer monsters from the DIY store, Jesuit Ninja Assassins and an angry Fairy King, who's just found out what Faustus is doing with his wife. All he's got to protect the Kid is his wits... and a partner who rips Bad Guys head's off/ And a Troll shapeshifter cum Duck. Werewolf, Vampire sweetshop owner, and the son he's about to give birth to. And the real fun part... to bring the Bad Guy's down......

Sunday the 4th of September, I make my way to the beach and set up my camera. I wait. Sunrise is only a few minutes away. I am alone, standing here looking towards the point where sea and sky are one; the rest of the shoreline is completely deserted. It is truly a moment of complete calm and peace. Not a sound to be heard, save that of the sea and the occasional gull, the wind and my own breath. Then all seems to pause as the first arc of the sun crests the horizon, gracefully making its grand entrance into the morning sky. Great artists and their works have been admired throughout history....

EM Faustus. Private Eye. He's back. Back in trouble. Someone from his past wants him dead. Someone from his past wants him in the frame for murder. And then dead. Death doesn't want him because it means more paperwork. His business partner wants him to wear a chastity belt And everyone hides when he asks for a light. Add onto that a case that doesn't actually have a client. Another case is being run by the Office Receptionist. A Gaggle of pneumatically enhanced Nuns who want him dead. A guy in a Rubber Chicken Suit who wants him dead. A collective of Marxism Daemons want him more than dead....

EM Faustus. Private Eye. Back in business. He's been given a case of a life time. Murder. By the murder victim themselves. A softly spoken Zombie who offers him a bag of cash and a free holiday... make that trip to New Orleans. Faustus just didn;t expect to have to deal with swarms of killer Zombies, trying to kill him... A gaggle of beautiful women, all trying to kill him... His business partners, both convinced that they're dead and trying to kill him. Oh... and then there's the alligators. All wanting him to listen to their poetry. Still... he's got smokes, coffee and a hat. Time to get...

This two-volume handbook provides a comprehensive examination of policy, practice, research, and theory related to English language teaching (ELT) in international contexts. Nearly 70 chapters highlight the research foundation for the best practices, frameworks for policy decisions, and areas of consensus and controversy in the teaching and development of English as a second and/or additional language for kindergarten through to adult speakers of languages other than English. In doing so it problematizes traditional dichotomies and challenges the very terms that provide the traditional...