Preface -- Chapter 1 Foreign language teaching in Asia and beyond: An introduction to the book -- Part 1: Theoretical foundation and research -- Chapter 2 Preparing language teachers to teach learning strategies -- Chapter 3 Discourse Politeness Theory and second language acquisition -- Chapter 4 Integrating general purpose and vocationally-oriented language learning (VOLL) - New goals for language and teacher training -- Chapter 5 Pragmatics in foreign language teaching and learning: Reflections on the teaching of Chinese in China -- Chapter 6 Development of a foreign language anxiety model -- Chapter 7 Facilitating students' understanding of English news: Peer scaffolding in an EFL listening classroom -- Chapter 8 Vocabulary learning strategies among adult foreign language learners -- Part 2: Classroom practice and evaluation studies -- Chapter 9 Technology in the service of constructivist pedagogy: Network-based applications and knowledge construction -- Chapter 10 Pedagogical concerns: Some common features of content-based instruction, task-based learning and business case study, and their roles in an EBP class -- Chapter 11 Memorizing dialogues: The case for "Performative Exercises" -- Chapter 12 The whole world communicates in English, do you? - Educational drama as an alternative approach to teaching English language in Japan -- Chapter 13 From oral interview test to oral communication test: Alleviating students' anxiety -- Authors and their affiliations -- Index.