NEW INSIGHTS INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING. Kees van Esch and Oliver St. John (Eds.). Berlin: Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. 239. $47.95 paper.

Although this work constitutes Volume 9 of the series Foreign language teaching in Europe, the reader should take literally neither the latter geographical indication nor the title's claim to novelty. Whereas the first half of the dozen authors are American and the second half European, the topics largely cut across the oceanic divide. As for the topics, they correspond to major themes in the field of second and foreign language education over the span of the last two decades.