Vol. 15 No. 1-2 (2005)

ARTICLES
• Tactics Employed and Problems Encountered by University English Majors in Hong Kong in Using a Dictionary by Alice Yin Wa Chan

• Hedging, Inflating, and Persuading in L2 Academic Writing by Eli Hinkel

• Developmental Sequences of L2 Communication Strategies by Marian J. Rossiter

REVIEWS
• The Handbook of Applied Linguistics, edited by Alan Davis & Catherine Elder. Reviewed by John S. Hedgcock

• Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition, by ZhaoHong Han. Reviewed by Swathi Vanniarajan

• Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring, by Diane Larse-Freeman. Reviewed by Lai Wong

NEWS AND VIEWS
• Towards Faster, Bigger, and Better Computers by Lidia Woytak