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)