CULTURE INTERACTION AND LEARNING 1. Not to waste words or students: Confucian and Socratic discourse in classroom interactions; 2. Second culture acquisition: Cognitive considerations; 3. Developing non-native speaker skills in interpreting coversational implicature in English: Explicit teaching can ease the process; CULTURE AND SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING 4. Culture, context, and writing; 5. Objectivity and credibility in second language writing 6. Representing culture in the ESL writing classroom; CULTURE AND SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS 7. A prosaics of interaction: The development of interactional competence in another language; 8. Some issues in the teaching of pragmatic competence; 9. Teachers and students learning about requests 10. Cultural codes for calls: The use of commercial television in teaching culture in the classroom 11. Cultural mirrors: Materials and methods in the EFL classroom.