EDITORIAL: Setting the Scene

Winifred Crombie

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The Relevance of Thinking Skills and Learning Strategies to Language Learning and Teaching for Adults

Lois Bellingham

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What is a Pegagogic Grammar?

Gaylene Devlin

12

Why functions?

Elizabeth Hallam

22

Using Oral Story-telling for Assessing Communicative Performance in ESL Contexts

Hui Jian Huang

29

Emerging Empowerment Models of Literacy - Time to Farewell TESL?

John McCaffery

40

Using Asian History, Culture and Literature in Teaching English to New Asian Immigrants

Bernard J O'Flaherty

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Vocabulary Overlap in Different Newspaper Accounts of the Same Event

Usana Sitthipol

59

Varieties of English and the EFL Classroom: A New Zealand Study

Donna Starks and Brian Paltridge

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Research on Intonation and the Design of English Language Programmes

Martin Wall

78

Language Learing: A Personal Experience

Sen Hi Wong

84