The Hard Work–Entertainment Continuum

In this issue
• Foreword
  Andy Kirkpatrick, Yong Zhong & Helen Kirkpatrick | pp. i–iii
Articles
• A policy initiative in Asian languages
  Colin Mackerras | pp. 1–16
• The teaching and learning of the four priority Asian languages
  Andy Kirkpatrick | pp. 17–34
• Curricula for background speakers of Chinese languages—towards a new link between economics and culture
  Kam Louie & Louise Edwards | pp. 35–52
• Innovation in university language teaching: Intensivity and immersion
  Ian G Malcolm | pp. 53–63
• Secondary exchanges with Japan: Exploring students’ experiences and gains
  Helen Marriott & Sanae Enomoto | pp. 64–82
• Effects of in-country experience on the acquisition of oral communication skills in Japanese
  Sonomi Atsuzawa-Windley & Sachiko Noguchi | pp. 83–98
• Bridging the gap: Course materials for pre-China and in-China language study
  Isabel Tasker | pp. 99–118
• A learner-centred foreign language curriculum for a large, diverse group of students? yes, it is possible
  Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson | pp. 119–130
• The teaching of Chinese and the Chinese way of thinking
  Guo Wu | pp. 131–152
• Cultural components in the teaching of Asian languages
  Shen Chen | pp. 153–168
• Strategy choice and the target language: A comparative study of learners of Japanese and French
  Cynthia White | pp. 169–182
• Pronunciation problems of Australian students learning Korean: Intervocalic liquid consonants
  Chong-Woon Kim & See-Gyoon Park | pp. 183–202
• Handling neologisms in teaching and learning modern standard Chinese
  Michael Sawer | pp. 203–228
• Some examples of listening exercises in Mandarin
  Philip Yungkin Lee | pp. 229–249
• Multiple instructions in communicative language teaching
  Yong Zhong & Francis R. Low | pp. 250–267
• A contrastive analysis of vocabulary teaching Australian and Chinese university settings
  Wang Zhenya | pp. 268–280

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