A new view of language learning and teaching is finding its way into public schools that offers adolescent-age English learners new hope for gaining true competence in the English language. Built on the time-tested precepts of sequenced grammar instruction and structured and relevant skills practice, teachers and students across the country and abroad have put the principles and practices detailed in this book to work to fundamentally transform their schools, their teaching, and their results. After 30 years of failed theories that sounded good but just didn't work, this book lays out a...