Cover -- Contents -- Introduction (Rahma Al-Mahrooqi & Christopher Denman) -- Teaching Effective Communication Strategies to EFL Learners (K. Thomas Baby) -- The Effect of Teaching Communicative Strategies on Students' Willingness to Communicate in an Iranian Context (Somayeh Gerami & Jafar Dorri Kafrani) -- Modeling Conditions for Students' Communication Skills Development by Means of a Modern Educational Environment (Olga Andreevna Obdalova) -- Fostering Oral and Written Communication Skills in EFL via the Use of Student-created Digi-videos (Samia Naqvi & Rahma Al-Mahrooqi) -- Advice among the Flowers: A Learner's Speech Act (Ann McLellan Howard) -- Investigating Vocabulary Teaching Modules for Preschoolers: The First Phase of a Design Experiment (Siti Bahirah Saidi / Liyana Ahmad Afip / Bazilah Raihan Mat Shawal / Yohan Kurniawan / Julia Tan Yin Yin & Norhaini Mat Lajis) -- The Effect of the First Language on the Pronunciation of Lower Intermediate Omani Students (Jaishree Umale) -- Rhyming and Singing: Tongue Training Toward Second Language Automaticity (Norhaini Hj Mat Lajis) -- Reducing Anxiety through Enhancing Omani EFL Learners' Emotional Intelligence (Chandrika Balasubamanian & Rahma Al-Mahrooqi) -- EFL Learners' Anxieties: Tertiary-level Strategies among Omanis (Asfia Khan & Rahma Al-Mahrooqi) -- Communication, Identity and Workplaces in English Language Teaching in the Tertiary System in Oman (Sindhu Harish) -- Constraints on Intercultural and Pragmatic Competence Development in EFL Classroom Contexts (Abdelkader Chaou) -- Culture, Globalization and L2 Education (Tarek Hermessi) -- Cognitive Styles in Intercultural Competence Development when Teaching English to Non-Linguistic Students (Aleksandra V. Soboleva).

Intercultural Communication and the Negotiation of Local and Foreign Cultures in the EFL Literature Classroom (Rahma Al-Mahrooqi & Christopher Denman) -- Learning from the Margins: Teaching Language, Culture and Communication through World Literature in the EFL Classroom (Sandhya Rao Mehta & Rahma Al-Mahrooqi) -- Taking Charge: Improving EFL Students' Language Proficiency, Academic Skills and Professional Preparation via Student-led Activities (Rahma Al-Mahrooqi & Khalsa Al-Aghbari) -- Employability, English Proficiency and Communicative Ability in the Arabian Gulf (Rahma Al-Mahrooqi & Christopher Denman) -- Notes on Contributors.