1. Introduction: Language in language teacher education: a discourse perspective (by Trappes-Lomax, Hugh); 2. Part 1. Concepts of language in language teacher education; 3. Is language a verb? - conceptual change in linguistics and language teaching (by Joseph, John E.); 4. The social component of language teacher education (by Davies, Alan); 5. Language teaching: defining the subject (by Widdowson, Henry G.); 6. Reflexive language in language teacher education (by Grundy, Peter); 7. Training in instructional conversation (by Thornbury, Scott); 8. Part 2. Working with language in language teacher education; 9. Doing language awareness: Issues for language study in language teacher education (by Wright, Tony); 10. Language awareness in the preparation of teachers of English for specific purposes (by Ferguson, Gibson); 11. Examining classroom discourse frames: An approach to raising language teachers' awareness of and planning for language use (by Pennington, Martha C.); 12. What was that you said?: Trainee generated language awareness (by O'Donoghue, Clare); 13. Developing language awareness and error detection: What can we expect of novice trainees? (by Murray, Heather); 14. Maintaining language skills in pre-service training for foreign language teachers (by Barnes, Ann); 15. The use of lesson transcripts for developing teachers' classroom language (by Cullen, Richard M.); 16. Towards a framework for language improvement within short in-service teacher development programmes (by Lavender, Susan); 17. Bionotes; 18. Index