Members of the Advisory Board Preface Plenary addresses The role of frequency in ELT:New corpus evidence brings a re-appraisal Constructs of Context in second language learning and teaching:Ecologies and economies Tradition and change in the ElT curriculum English as an international language and Japan's English language teaching Meeting the communicative demands in academic and professiopnal training curricula:An overview of ELT in tertiary institutions in Singapore On a streamline English language teaching system with Chinese characteristics A matter of balance-Reflections of China's language From the classroom to distance to Internet Syllabus design and materials development EFL in the strategic development of Western China Reforms in teaching and urriculum at the English de-partment,BFSU Communicative English teaching in the context of China's reforms:the CECL revision project ELT curriculum changes in the 21st century:Planning to support the implementers in their wider and lo-calcontexts New media techmologies and transformation of English literature classroom:With special reference to the designing and teaching of comparative cultural studies course the possibilities of fostering learner autonomy therough course design Setting up a training system or the special foreingn lan-guage talents with English,Japanese,Korean and Chinese in the English department …… Learner autonomy and learning strategy Listening and speaking Reading Vocabulary acquisition Writing Testing and evaluation Teacher training