"What makes a language learner an expert? What do skilled learners and second language users do as they listen, speak, read and write? This book provides an overview of how questions like these are being answered by applied linguists. It considers also similar questions about the expertise of language teaching professionals, task designers and teacher trainers as well as teachers. Throughout, the book draws heavily on the literature dealing with expertise in general, applying ideas and insights from that literature to the language learning and teaching fields. Questions about how expertise can be taught are also considered. The book will be of interest to all those involved in language teaching and language teacher education who believe that knowing what constitutes expertise in these areas is essential if we are successfully to train experts."--BOOK JACKET.

The 'general' study of expertise /Keith Johnson -- The expert language learner / Joan Rubin -- Second language listening expertise / Christine Goh -- Reading and expertise / Catherine Wallace -- Oral second language abilities as expertise / Martin Bygate -- Second language writing expertise / Sara Cushing Weigle -- Training language learning expertise / Steven McDonough -- Expertise in teaching / Amy B.M. Tsui -- Teacher cognition in language teaching / Simon Borg -- Expertise in teacher education / Alan Waters -- Espertise in pedagogic task design / Virginia Samuda.