This special issue of a journal on language teaching and cross-cultural communication includes both regular articles and forum essays. Regular feature articles include: "Is Japanese English Education Changing?" (Yoshie Aiga); "Textual Schemata and English Language Learning" (S. Kathleen Kitao); "Visuals and Imagination" (Alan Maley); "Oral Language Taping and Analysis for Teacher Training" (Elizabeth Leone); "Who Does What With Errors?" (Joyce M. Taniguchi); "Expanding the Intercultural Perspective" (William McOmie); and "Rapid-Fire Questions for Better Communication" (Robert Ruud). Forum essays on the topic "The Globalization of Higher Education" include "An American Comprehensive Public University Linked with a Japanese Municipality" (Jared Dorn); "The Internationalization of an American University" (William G. Davey, Lynne A. McNamara); "An American Community College in Japan" (Anthony Butera); "An American University English Language Institute in Japan" (Steven Brown, Dorolyn Smith); "Teaching in Japan: Excerpts from the Temple University Japan 'Faculty Guide'" (William F. Sharp); "Review of 'Profiting from Education'" (Scott Jarrett); "The Role and Value of Accreditation in American Higher Education: At Home and Abroad" (Majorie Peace Lenn); "Preparing Malaysian Students for American University Education" (Janice Nersinger); and "The Globalization of Education: A Malaysian Perspective" (Terry Fredrickson). Book reviews, publication announcements, and calendar announcements are included. (MSE)