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This book has been written to resolve the long-standing debate over the role of the mother tongue (MT) in the foreign language (FL) classroom. In an act of theoretical house-cleaning, the MT taboo, which has been, without justification of any substance, the perceived didactical correctness for so many years and in so many countries, will be swept away. At the same time, this book combines theory with practice, advice and guidance to teachers. Since the MT issue touches upon all the major domains of FL teaching – vocabulary, grammar, texts, communication, emotional aspects of learning, even pronunciation - a new synthesis of theory and practice has necessarily been developed in the process. This book shows how to tap the potential of the MT (and previously learned languages), how harness the existing communicative competence, how to exploit the generative power of language, and how to teach foreign languages as a skill that all children can acquire. In illustrating these ideas with a rich repertoire of novel techniques for the FL teacher, we hope to set the theory and practice of FLT on a productive new course. Making the MT the corner stone in the architecture of FLT is a true paradigm shift.