Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Individual characteristics and foreign language education: An introduction to the book -- Part 1: Cognitive variables -- Chapter 2. Attention, awareness, and individual differences in language learning -- Chapter 3. Language learning aptitude and foreign language learning -- Chapter 4. Understanding L2 reading: A cognitive perspective -- Chapter 5. The effects of motivation and proficiency on pragmatic and grammatical awareness in foreign language learning -- Chapter 6. Differentiated instruction for language and learning strategies: Classroom applications -- Chapter 7. Characterising individual learners on an empirically-developed can-do system: An application of Latent Rank Theory -- Part 2: Beliefs, assumptions and attitudes -- Chapter 8. Learner language in unrehearsed communication: Nurturing individual differences in the classroom -- Chapter 9. Exploring Australian Japanese language teachers' perceptions of intercultural language learning -- Chapter 10. Assumptions about learning and teaching languages amongst Australian pre-service teachers: A pedagogical process allowing reflection for teacher learning -- Chapter 11. Individual difference and context in study abroad -- Part 3: Motivation, identity and anxiety -- Chapter 12. The role of stories in teacher development -- Chapter 13. Language identity as a process and second language learning -- Chapter 14. Fostering learners' affective development through process drama -- Chapter 15 Implementing a goal setting program for EFL students: The design, process and results -- Chapter 16. A study of foreign language classroom anxiety at a Taiwanese university -- Authors and their affiliations -- Index