All the titles in the series are written by experienced teachers/lecturers and teacher/ educators with the aim of providing advice on methodology and approaches to language and literature pedagogy. Some of the books show how the teaching of old staples in our English classrooms, such as phonics, grammar and the writing of various genres, can be carried out in more empowering ways; others suggest ways of fundamentally redesigning, in this age of multimedia, multimodality as well as interdisciplinarity, what teaching English is all about.

Although the books in the series are written in an accessible, non-academic style, at the same time they draw on up-to-date research and viable prototypes in order to offer guidance to practising teachers about pedagogical approaches that have been shown to be effective. This series hopes to provide teachers and student-teachers with new ways of looking at the important work that English teachers do, and inspire them to probe beyond received wisdoms in teaching their subject.