Afterword: Future Directions in L2 Teaching and Learning

Clearly, L2 pedagogy has made huge leaps of progress in recent years, and innovative researchers and instructors are contributing inspirational developments in methodology and theory to this field. This volume has compiled several such studies that provide evidence of this. A wide range of concerns are addressed from culture to motivation to course design. The reader should find the topics explored in this volume to be useful tools in developing courses, writing syllabi, textbooks or learning material, motivating students, or even becoming a more effective language learner. This afterword aims to provide a summarized overview of the mass of useful information presented in this volume’s contributions, and make suggestions for future research directions.