Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 15.

This issue contains five articles, including reports of activities of the University of Hong Kong's English Center, five action research reports, reflections on various conferences, and a book review by Ray Mackay of "Asian Voices in English." The five articles are: "Cultural Syntonicity: Co-operative Relationships between the ESP Unit and Other Departments" (Colin Barron); "From 'Remedial English' to 'English Enhancement' (So, What Else Is New?)" (Desmond Allison); "Self-Access for Self-Directed Learning" (Philip Benson); "Assessing Students at Tertiary Level: How Can We Improve?" (Jo A. Lewkowicz); and "Ensuring Access and Quality in Open Learning Programmes: Communication and Study Skills Training for ESL-Medium Higher Education" (Nigel J. Bruce). Reports of research are: "An Introduction to the Action Research Progress Reports" (Denis Williamson and Elaine Martyn); "Self-Access Action Research: A Progress Report" (Elaine Martyn and Chan Nim Yin); "A Progress Report of an Action Research Project into the Marking of Students' Written Work" (Denis Williamson); "Electronic Mail as a Tool To Enable Purposeful Communication" (David Gardner)' and "Discourse Awareness in Student Writing" (Desmond Allison). (LB)