The 16 papers in this anthology have been selected to represent a cross-section of presentations made at the RELC International Seminar (19-21 April 1999) on “Language in the Global Context: Implications for the Language Classrooms”.

There are 10 papers in this anthology that have been selected to represent a variety of views from the 2000 RELC International Seminar on “Language Curriculum and Instruction in Multicultural Societies” .

The 16 papers in this anthology have been selected from a much larger number of papers presented at the annual RELC International Seminar on “Grammar In The Language Classroom: Changing Approaches and Practices” held from the 23 to 25 April 2001.

This anthology contains 14 papers that have been selected from those presented at the 37th SEAMEO RELC International Seminar on “Methodology and Materials Design in Language Teaching: Current Perceptions and Practices and their Implications” held from 22 to 24 April 2002.

This anthology contains a selection of 14 papers presented at the 38th SEAMEO RELC International Seminar on “Teaching and Assessing Language Proficiency” held 3-5 November 2003. The papers varied in their focus and approach, but each reflects in some way the three aims of the Seminar, which were to: 1) examine changes in approaches to language teaching, 2) examine current approaches to language attachment, and 3) assess the implications of these for classroom practices.

This anthology deals with the teaching of reading and writing - in particular new ideas about this field that have emerged in recent years, some of which stem from the availability of new technologies. One of the aims of the papers selected is to explore how new theories of language and learning and new technology demand and make possible innovation in teaching, reading and writing.

This anthology is a selection of sixteen papers presented at the 40th SEAMEO RELC International Seminar on “New Dimensions in the Teaching of Oral Communication" held from 18 to 20 April 2005.
The papers selected for this anthology mirror the main aims of the seminar:
-To provide a platform for discussion on the way we teach listening and speaking
-To examine how research into listening and speaking skills can inform instructional practices
-To explore how new theories of language and learning, and new technology in teaching and assessing listening and speaking.

The twenty-one papers in this anthology deal with a variety of facets of both pre-service and in-service training of English language teachers, especially in Asia but in other countries, such as US and New Zealand, where Asian teachers often receive additional training.

The sixteen papers in this anthology were selected from more than ninety presentations by specially invited scholars and language specialists from all over the world at the 42nd RELC International Seminar.

Whilst all the plenary papers by specially invited speakers were included, due to the sheer number, the editor had to be more selective when it came to the papers presented at the parallel sessions and has chosen a range of papers that would best reflect the basic aims of the seminar to develop more effective teaching strategies as well as to highlight those strategies that would make language learning more enjoyable.

This anthology contains a selection of sixteen papers presented at the 43rd SEAMEO RELC International Seminar on “Language Teaching in a Multilingual World: Challenges and Opportunities”, held from 21 to 23 April 2008 in Singapore.

The papers selected for this anthology represent the range of papers presented at the seminar and care was taken to include papers that dealt with issues at the micro as well as macro levels.

As is traditional, the papers have been divided into three sections namely Language Skills Development, Language Functions and Language in the Global Context.