ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book shows that tapping a person's expectations before they read something is a useful technique for improving reading skills. It focuses on five characters who illustrate some of the many reasons why people take time to learn a foreign language in today's world. It is not in fact difficult to understand the importance of foreign language learning in today's world. In a multilingual world, it is natural to find large numbers of people who speak (and have therefore learned) more than one language. We have seen that people learn foreign languages for a great variety of reasons. The book provides five different teaching methods, which would of course be an exaggeration to say that there are as many methods of teaching a foreign language as there are learners.
