Editorial

Readers Forum

A profile of an effective L2 reading teacher

- Jack C Richards

Learning to teach: Four instructional patterns in language teacher education
- Donald Freeman

Teacher-learner contact in the Distance Learning program It's Over to You
- B H Watts

Personal support and assistance in Distance learning
- Simon Kopij

Are there guerillas in your classroom? Cross-cultural reflections on communicative strategies
- Susan Chou Allender

Learning Vietnamese in Vietnam
- Anne Herbert

Roles and goals: the emerging challenge to ESL
- Robert Bean

Teachers' exchange
Using crossword magic in language teaching - Peter McGuire
Using text to generate text in the language learning classroom - Ruth Wajnryb

Book reviews
The learner-centred curriculum
English grammar in use: A self-study reference and practice book for intermediate students
The BBI combinatory dictionary of English: A guide to word combinations
Steps in literacy: a handbook for teachers of long-term residents with high oracy and low literacy skills in English
Literature in the language classroom: A resource book of ideas and activities
English for Specific Purposes: A learning-centred approach
Language learning and deafness

Publications received

Forthcoming events

Notes on contributors