1. Message from the President (by Ikehata, Setsuho); 2. Center of Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics (UBLI) (by Kawaguchi, Yuji); 3. Preface (by Yoshitomi, Asako); 4. Part I. Teaching Perspective; 5. Discourse Politeness Theory and Cross-Cultural Pragmatics (by Usami, Mayumi); 6. Teaching Conversational Storytelling Skills to Japanese Students of English: Why is it Necessary and What could be Taught? (by Suzuki, Takashi); 7. Integration of Theory and Practice in Grammar Teaching: Grammaring, Grammarization and Task Activities (by Takashima, Hide); 8. A Computerized Test of Oral Proficiency: Development of an Automated Instrument (by Hansen, Lynne); 9. How Much Do We Have in Common with the Common European Framework of Reference?: The Applicability of the CEFR to an IRT-based English Proficiency Test in Japan (by Negishi, Masashi); 10. An Inquiry into the Social Aspects of Language Teacher Expertise (by Stewart, Alison); 11. Part II. Learning Perspective; 12. Learning to Reframe: Japanese Benefactives, Metalinguistic Beliefs and the Identities of L2 Users (by Pizziconi, Barbara); 13. The Zone of Proximal Development and Second Language Acquisition: Beyond Social Interaction (by Snyder Ohta, Amy); 14. Manual Introduction of Animate Referents in L2 Narrative Discourse (by Yoshioka, Keiko); 15. The Use of Phrasal Verbs by Japanese Learners of English: Implications from Story Telling Data (by Yoshitomi, Asako); 16. Learning a Second Language through Audiovisual Media: A Longitudinal Investigation of Strategy Use and Development (by Umino, Tae); 17. Network-Based Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL): Emergent Research Issues (by Peterson, Mark); 18. Index of Proper Nouns; 19. Index of Subjects; 20. Contributors