This issue of Teaching English In China comes to you with apologies for the delay in publication between the last issue and this. In the interim, we have been issued with an ISSN, so this is our first issue both as an annual publication and as a recognised academic journal. We trust that this development will assist all our contributors. However, we have been inundated with articles of a high standard, for which we would like to thank all of you, but this has meant it has not been possible to publish all those we have received in this issue. For those of you who have submitted articles that do not appear in this edition we will be writing to you all individually, in due course.