The cover blurb and the introduction suggest that the book can be used in other ways, for example as a reference book and handbook for individual teachers, a sourcebook for teacher educators, or as an introduction to the profession for new teachers “who wish to gain an overview of theory and practice” (3). It is indeed a surprisingly adaptable text, and I have used it with some success as a textbook on an academic course about English Language Teaching for university students of English who were prospective schoolteachers but who had no actual teaching experience. However, I do think that only teachers with some solid classroom experience will get full benefit from the book, and that similarly only those able to devote time to its study and to discuss the ideas in it with others–generally, teachers on formal courses–will get the best possible use from it.