Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Speaking Tree: A medium of plural canons / Braj B. Kachru (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • The triumph of the yell / Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University)
  • Teaching culture in the language classroom: Toward a new philosophy / Rebecca L. Oxford (University of Alabama)
  • Toward an acquisition-oriented syllabus / Gen-yuan Zhuang (Hangzhou University)
  • The use of language tests for power and control / Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv University)
  • The impact of college entrance examinations on high school ESL/EFL writing / Chen-ching Li (Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States)
  • The beginnings of language testing as a profession / Bernard Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University)
  • Retooling for communication: Hungary reorients its FL teaching / Katalin Nyikos (Georgetown University)
  • Language choices for West Africa in the global village / Jerry Cline-Bailey (Xavier University (Cincinnati))
  • Politeness across cultures: Implications for second language teaching / Ayo Bamgbose (University of Ibadan and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • What do "Yes" and "No" really mean in Chinese? / Yu-hwei E. Lii-Shih (National Taiwan Normal University)
  • Culture, discourse, and choice of structure / Ren Shaozeng (Hangzhou University)
  • Teaching global interdependence as a subversive activity / H. Douglas Brown (San Francisco State University)
  • Educational linguistics and the knowledge base of language teaching / Donald Freeman (School for International Training)
  • Educational linguistics: Field and project / Leo van Lier (Monterey Institute of International Studies)
  • Locating contingency in e-mail / Celeste Kinginger (University of Maryland)
  • Computer-based classrooms for language teaching / Stephanie J. Stauffer (Georgetown University)
  • Organized Babel: English as a global lingua franca / Tom McArthur (English Today, Cambridge University Press)
  • The fiction of the native speaker in L2 research / Eyamba G. Bokamba (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • French native-speaker use of the subjunctive in speech and writing / Nadine O'Connor Di Vito (University of Chicago)
  • The language educator at work in the learner-centered classroom: Communicate, decision-make, and remember to apply the (educational) linguistics / Teresa Pica (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Crosscultural communication and comparative terminology / Faina Citkina (Kent State University (Ohio) and Uzhgorod State University (Ukraine)
  • The pleasure hypothesis / Stephen Krashen (University of Southern California)
  • A model for learning strategies instruction in the foreign language classroom / Anna Uhl Chamot (Georgetown University)
  • Educational linguistics and coherent curriculum development: The crucial link / Ronald P. Leow (Georgetown University)
  • An alternative to mainstream U.S. educational discourse: Implications for minority identity development / Rebecca Freeman (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Educational linguistics: Looking to the East / Anne Pakir (National University of Singapore)
  • The sources of language teachers' instructional decisions / Jack C. Richards (City University of Hong Kong).