The Editors: Lou Burnard is manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford University Computing Services. He is the author, with Guy Aston, of The BNC Handbook, and European editor of the Text Encoding Initiative’s Guidelines for the Encoding of Machine Readable Texts. Tony McEnery is Reader at Lancaster University’s Department of Linguistics and series editor of Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics. His publications include standard textbooks on Corpus Linguistics and several previous volumes on Teaching and Language Corpora and on Multilingual Corpora.

• Contents: Guy Aston: Corpora and language teaching – Jeremy Clear: Do you believe in Grammar? – Michael Hoey: The hidden lexical clues of textual organisation: a preliminary investigation into an unusual text from a corpus perspective – Rita Simpson, Bret Lucka, and Janine Ovens: Methodological challenges of planning a spoken corpus with pedagogical outcomes – Heloisa Collins: Materials design and language corpora: a report in the context of Distance Education – Pierre-Yves Foucou and Natalie Kübler: A web-based environment for teaching technical English – Christopher Tribble: Genres, keywords, teaching: towards a pedagogic account of the language of project proposals – Paul Thompson: Citation practices in PhD theses – Mike Scott: Focusing on the text and its key words – Yukio Tono: A computer learner corpus based analysis of the acquisition order of English grammatical morphemes – Winnie Cheng and Martin Warren: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English: language learning through language description – Lynne Flowerdew: Investigating referential and pragmatic errors in a learner corpus – Eva Eppler, Robert Crawshaw and Caroline Clapham: The Interculture Project corpus: data classification, access and the development of intercultural competence – John Osborne: What can students learn from a corpus?: building bridges between data and explanation – Mark Davies: Using multi-million word corpora of historical and dialectical Spanish texts to teach advanced courses in Spanish linguistics – Josef Szakos: Producing and using corpora in Chinese language education – Angela Hahn: Grammar at its best: The development of a rule- and corpus-based grammar of English tenses – Barbara Seidlhofer: Operationalizing intertextuality: using learner corpora for learning – Silvia Bernardini: Systematising serendipity: Proposals for concordancing large corpora with language learners – Jennifer Pearson: Surfing the Internet: teaching students to choose their texts wisely.