It was only about a year ago, in a reckless moment of shelf-purging, that I reluctantly placedmy original offset copy (circa 1975) of The Good Language Learner into thepaper-recycling bin. Many of us fondly remember that big orange-covered prepublicationvolume, dog-eared, battered, and stuck together with tape. Now, almost two decades after thefirst publication of The Good Language Learner (Ontario Institute for Studies inEducation, 1978) this reissue appears as part of Multilingual Matters' “ModernLanguages in Practice” series. It is the first time this series has featured a reprint of“classic” (p. vii) volumes of interest to foreign language researchers andteachers.