Amazon.com description: Product Description: This collection addresses three key themes of rising significance in the world of English teaching. The first is the debate over the increasing intervention by the state and mercantilist ethics in education; the second is the movement away from literature to transactional uses of language as the main focus of the English curriculum, and the third is the increasingly dominant theme of assessment. These three themes are interlinked and inform each of the chapters; overall, the volume gives us a state-of-the-art picture of these significant debates in English teaching.