The two issues in this volume of the "JALT Journal" contain the following articles: "Comprehension and Production Practice in Grammar Instruction: Does Their Combined Use Facilitate Second Language Acquisition?" (Takeo Tanaka); "Professional Development and the JET Program: Insights and Solutions Based on the Sendai City Program" (Anthony Crooks); "Language Learning Motivation of EFL Learners in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Various Learning Milieus" (Yuzo Kimura, Yoshiyuki Nakata, and Tomomi Okumura); "Beliefs about Learning and Teaching Communicative English in Japan" (Hiroko Matsuura, Reiko Chiba, and Paul Hilderbrandt); "What Counts in the Acquisition and Attrition of Numeral Classifiers?" (Lynne Hansen and Yung-Lin Chen); "An Analysis of Discourse Miscues in the Oral Production of Non-Native Speakers of English" (V. Michael Cribb); "Tools of Recursion, Intermental Zones of Proximal Development, and Critical Collaborative Autonomy" (Tim Murphey); "L2 Learners' Strategic Mental Processes during a Listening Test" (Naoko Taguchi); "How Reliable and Valid Is the Japanese Version of the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL)?" (Gordon Robson and Hideko Midorikawa); "Quiet Apprehension: Reading and Classroom Anxieties" (Sae Matsuda and Peter Gobel); and "A Rationale for L1-to-L2 Literacy Translation in College EFL Instruction" (James W. Porcaro). The journal issues in this volume also include reviews of 10 books on such topics as researching and applying metaphor, language teaching, the evolution of written English, and critical applied linguistics. (SM)