We still believe strongly in what we said in the Introduction to the first edition of Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School about the nature of teaching English and what it means to be a teacher of English. We hope you will find the time to read what we wrote in 1997, as it is still, perhaps more, relevant eleven years on.
However, as the Introduction to the second edition of this book noted, the final paragraph of the Introduction to the first edition begins, ‘It is a truism that what is most up-to-date is quickly dated’. Four years on and plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose . . .