University modern languages: students and staff -- Modern languages as a university discipline / James A. Coleman -- Who are our students and what do they bring from previous experience? / Norbert Pachler -- Where do our graduates go? Languages and careers / James A. Coleman -- Who teaches our students? University teachers and their professional development / John Klapper -- The theory and practice of language teaching -- Research into language learning / James A. Coleman and John Klapper -- Curriculum design / James A. Coleman and Elizabeth Hauge -- The four language skills or 'juggling simultaneous constraints' / Elspeth Broady -- Teaching grammar / John Klapper -- Teaching and learning vocabulary / Paul Meara -- Assessment in modern languages / John Klapper -- Assessing language skills / John Klapper -- Using the foreign language assistant / Agnès Gower -- Translating and interpreting / James A. Coleman and Isabelle Perez -- Modes and contexts of university language learning -- Institution-wide languages programmes and non-specialist learners / Derrik Ferney -- Residence abroad / James A. Coleman -- Independent learning / Vicky Wright -- Distance learning in modern languages / Stella Hurd -- Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) / June Thompson -- The internet and computer-mediated communication / Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou -- The effective learning of languages in tandem / Tim Lewis -- Corpora and concordances / Marie-Madeleine Kenning -- A diverse discipline -- Cultural studies / Michael Kelly -- Languages and business studies / David Head -- Linguistics / Rosalind Temple -- Area studies / Alison Phipps -- Literary studies / Diana Holmes and David Platten